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I recently gave a world premiere of a new piano concerto by John Carbon at the Barshinger Center in Pennsylvania. Here is the YouTube link. I hope you enjoy it!
http://youtu.be/FEz6tnNbQ3Y
I am pleased to announce the release of a new solo CD on Zimbel Records: John Carbon Piano Music Played by Steven Graff.
"In this recital of wall-to-wall premiere recordings, Graff plays Carbon with a comfortable authority, easily equal to the virtuosity of the Sonata, but with the experience and expressiveness necessary to communicate the timbral and textural nuances of the Spanish Lessons."
- Len Mullenger of MusicWeb International
Please visit the following websites for details:
Zimbel Records
CDBaby
Amazon
You can also find my CD of contemporary American piano music on Centaur Records: Music From America’s First and Second Cities. It is a collection of contemporary piano music by composers from New York (Barber, Gershwin and Del Tredici) and Chicago (Muczynski, Sowerby and La Montaine).
"Pianist Steven Graff plays all of the preceding music with passion and no little flair. He has a fluid, natural sense of rhythm, especially notable in the Sowerby and Del Tredici. He is formidable, as well, in the widely played Gershwin and Barber..."
Please visit: www.centaurrecords.com.
For more biographical information, please visit Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Graff.
Here are some upcoming concerts. I hope to see you there!
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat Major, Op. 83 with conductor Eric Kramer and The New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble, The Julia Richman Auditorium, 317 East 67th Street (at Second Avenue), New York City. Please visit www.nysae.net for details.
A Benefit Concert for Music For Everyone (musicforeveryone.org), at the First Reformed Church, 40 East Orange Street, Lancaster, PA. Chamber music works by John Mackey, Paul Schoenfeld, Astor Piazzolla, Antonin Dvorak and Sergei Rachmaninoff.
A chamber music concert presented by the Artemisia Trio at The Takaezu Studio Concert Series, United Methodist Church, 1187 Croton Road, Quakertown, New Jersey. Trios by Beethoven, Grieg and Schumann. For ticket information please visit: www.takaezustudioconcerts.com
A solo recital at Hunter College, the Lang Recital Hall, Hunter College North, 695 Park Avenue at 69th Street, New York City
Chopin, Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, op. 21 with Jonathan De Vries, conductor, presented by The Canterbury Choral Society, at The Church of the Heavenly Rest, 2 East 90th Street at Fifth Avenue, New York City. For more information visit: www.canterburychoral.org.
Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in D flat Major, Op. 10 with conductor Eric Kramer and The New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble, The Julia Richman Auditorium, 317 East 67th Street (at Second Avenue), New York City. Please visit www.nysae.net for details.
A chamber music concert presented by the Artemisia Trio at The Takaezu Studio Concert Series, United Methodist Church, 1187 Croton Road, Quakertown, New Jersey. For ticket and program information please visit: www.takaezustudioconcerts.com.
Guest artist at the New York Philharmonic Education sponsored Chamber Music Concert, LeFrak Concert Hall at Kupferbert Center for the Arts at Queens College. Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G Minor.
A chamber music concert presented by The Artemisia Trio at The Takaezu Studio Concerts, United Methodist Church, 1187 Croton Road, Quakertown, New Jersey. Works by Mozart, Beethoven, Drucker and Dvorak. For ticket and program information please visit: www.takaezustudioconcerts.com.
Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 in E Flat Major, Op. 73 (“Emperor”) with conductor Eric Kramer and The New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble, The Julia Richman Auditorium, 317 East 67th Street (at 2nd Avenue), New York City. Please visit www.nysae.net for details.
A chamber music concert presented by The Artemisia Trio at The Takaezu Studio Concerts, United Methodist Church, 1187 Croton Road, Quakertown, New Jersey. For ticket and program information please visit www.takaezustudioconcerts.com.
A chamber music concert presented by The Artemisia Trio at The Takaezu Studio Concerts, United Methodist Church, 1187 Croton Road, Quakertown, New Jersey. Works by Haydn, Dvorak and Fanny Mendelssohn. For ticket information please visit www.takaezustudioconcerts.com.
A solo piano recital presented by The Takaezu Studio Concerts, United Methodist Church, 1187 Croton Road, Quakertown, New Jersey. Works tba. For ticket information please visit www.takaezustudioconcerts.com.
A chamber music concert presented by The Artemisia Trio at The Takaezu Studio Concerts. Works by Beethoven, Brahms and Grieg. For ticket information and concert venue please visit www.takaezustudioconcerts.com.
A chamber music concert presented by The Artemisia Trio at The Takaezu Studio Concerts, United Methodist Church, 1187 Croton Road, Quakertown, New Jersey. Works by Haydn, Mendelssohn and Piazzolla. For ticket information please visit www.takaezustudioconcerts.com.
Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, op. 22 with Jonathan De Vries, conductor, presented by The Canterbury Choral Society, at The Church of the Heavenly Rest, 2 East 90th Street at Fifth Avenue, New York City. For more information visit: www.canterburychoral.org.
A solo recital at Hunter College, the Lang Recital Hall, Hunter College North, 695 Park Avenue at 69th Street, New York City.
A chamber music concert presented by The Artemisia Trio at The Takaezu Studio Concerts, United Methodist Church, 1187 Croton Road, Quakertown, New Jersey. Works by Bach, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. For ticket information please visit www.takaezustudioconcerts.com.
Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 54 with Kyunghun Kim, conductor, and the Doctors Orchestral Society of New York, Norman Thomas Auditorium, 111 East 33rd Street (NE corner of Park Avenue). Please visit www.doctorsorchestra.org for details.
A solo recital at Meadow Ridge, 100 Redding Road, Redding Connecticut. For ticket information contact info@meadowridge.com.
A chamber music concert presented by The Artemisia Trio at The Takaezu Studio,
1187 Croton Road, Quakertown, New Jersey. Works by Haydn, Brahms and Franck. For ticket information please visit www.takaezustudioconcerts.com.
A solo recital at The Bar Harbor Music Festival, Bar Harbor Congregational Church, 29 Mount Desert St, Bar Harbor, Maine. (Also pre-concert lecture on July 1st, details tba) For ticket information please visit www.barharbormusicfestival.org.
Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with Jonathan De Vries, conductor, presented by The Canterbury Choral Society, at The Church of the Heavenly Rest, 2 East 90th Street at Fifth Avenue, New York City. For more information visit: www.canterburychoral.org.
Mini-recital at the Kosciuszko Foundation, for the Bar Harbor Music Festival Spring Benefit (6:00 p.m. cocktails, 7:00 p.m. piano recital, 7:45 p.m. buffet dinner). Works by Bach, Beethoven and Chopin. For ticket information please visit www.barharbormusicfestival.org/events.html.
Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 16 with Kyunghun Kim, conductor, and the Doctors Orchestral Society of New York, Norman Thomas Auditorium, 111 East 33rd Street (NE corner of Park Avenue). Please visit www.doctorsorchestra.org for details.
Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with Timothy Hutto, conductor, and The New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble, The Julia Richman Auditorium, 317 East 67th Street (at 2nd Avenue). Please visit www.nysae.net for details.
A recital with cellist Philip Ewell at Hunter College, the Lang Recital Hall, Hunter College North, 695 Park Avenue at 69th Street, New York City. Works by Brahms and Debussy.
Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat Major with Charles Dodsley Walker, conductor, presented by The Canterbury Choral
Society, at The Church of the Heavenly Rest, 2 East 90th Street at Fifth Avenue, New York City.
Lecture at The Macaulay Honors College of The City University of New York, 35 West 67th Street, New York City: “Building Tomorrow’s Audience for Classical Music.” Part of Macaulay’s Topics and Tapas series.
A solo recital at Hunter College, the Lang Recital Hall, Hunter College North, 695 Park Avenue at 69th Street, New York City.
Pianist for The Village Light Opera Group’s performances of Accommodating Kate, a new musical by Peter Knopp and Peter Homans, at Hunter College, 65 Park Avenue, New York City. For details and tickets please visit www.villagelightopera.org.
A solo piano recital at The Maple Grove Concert Series, 127-15 Kew Gardens Road, Kew Gardens, New York.
The world premiere of a new piano concerto by John Carbon with The Allegro Chamber Orchestra and conductor Brian Norcross, The Barshinger Center for Musical Arts, Franklin & Marshall College, College Avenue, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Here is the YouTube link: http://youtu.be/FEz6tnNbQ3Y
A piano master class at Steinway Hall, 109 West 57th Street, New York City.
Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major with Timothy Hutto, conductor, and The New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble, The Julia Richman Auditorium, 317 East 67th Street (at 2nd Avenue). Please visit www.nysae.net for details.
Piano Trios with violinist Michael Jamanis and cellist Sara Male, Lititz Church of the Brethren Concert Series, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
A two-week concert tour of China as concerto soloist with the Manhattan Symphonie under the baton of Gregory Singer. George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue will be performed in eight cities, starting in Beijing.
Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor with David Grunberg, conductor, and The Spectrum Symphony, Church of St. Paul the Apostle, Columbus Avenue at West 60th Street, New York City. Please visit spectrumsymphony.org for details.
A solo piano recital at The Maple Grove Concert Series, 127-15 Kew Gardens Road, Kew Gardens, New York.
A recital with cellist Laura Metcalfe at the Sunday Concert Series, Church of the Good Shepherd, 543 Main Street, Roosevelt Island, New York.
A piano master class at Steinway Hall, 109 West 57th Street, New York City.
A recital with violinist Steven Zynszajn at the Classical Interludes Series at Dweck Auditorium, Brooklyn Central Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York.
A solo recital at The Hudson River Music Hall, 122 Main Street, Hudson Falls, New York. For info and tickets please call 518-747-0778.
A fundraising concert for the Japan Disaster Relief Fund at The Japan American Association, 15 West 44th Street, New York City. Solo and chamber music works will be performed. For information contact info@jaany.org.
A recital on the Dame Myra Hess Concert series with violinist Steven Zynszajn in Chicago at Preston Bradley Hall of the Chicago Cultural Center, broadcast live on WFMT Fine Arts Radio.
A solo recital at Hunter College, the Lang Recital Hall, Hunter College North, 695 Park Avenue at 69th Street, New York City.
A solo recital at the Sunday Concert Series, Church of the Good Shepherd, 543 Main Street, Roosevelt Island, New York.
Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major with Timothy Hutto, conductor, and The New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble, The Julia Richman Auditorium, 317 East 67th Street (at 2nd Avenue). Please visit: www.nysae.net for details.
A piano master class at Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Works of contemporary American composer, John Carbon.
A solo recital at The Hudson River Music Hall, 122 Main Street, Hudson Falls, New York. For info and tickets please call 518-747-0778.
A concert of Beethoven and Cherubini: works from 1816, sponsored by The Canterbury Chorale Society, The Church of the Heavenly Rest, 2 East 90th Street, New York City.
A recital with soprano Fang Tao Jiang at Thalia Hall at Symphony Space. Songs by Bellini, Handel, Schubert, Strauss, Liszt, Debussy, and Huangzi. The operatic selections include arias from The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute, Romeo and Juliet, and Turandot . For details, visit www.symphonyspace.org.
MacDowell's Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor with Timothy Hutto, conductor, and The New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble, The Julia Richman Auditorium, 317 East 67th Street (at 2nd Avenue). Please visit: www.nysae.net for details.
A solo recital at Steinway Hall, 109 West 57th Street (off Sixth Avenue), New York City.
Lautreamont Concerts presents an all-tango program at The Liederkranz Foundation, 6 East 87th Street, New York City. Works by Astor Piazzolla, Osvaldo Pugliese, Anibal Troilo and Agustin Bardi. Please visit www.LautreamontConcerts.org for details.
 Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor with Charles Dodsley Walker, conductor, presented by The Canterbury Chorale Society, the Church of The Heavenly Rest, 2 East 90th Street, New York City.
Lautreamont Concerts presents a Schumann Bicentennial program, Christ & St. Stephen's Church, 120 West 68th Street. Please visit www.LautreamontConcerts.org for details.
Lautreamont Concerts presents solo and chamber works at The Liederkranz Foundation, 6 East 87th Street, New York City. Please visit www.LautreamontConcerts.org for details.
Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor with Kyunghun Kim, conductor, and The New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble, The Julia Richman Auditorium, 317 East 67th Street (at 2nd Avenue). Please visit: www.nysae.net for details.
Beethoven's Cello Sonata in A Major with Leigh Stuart at The Sunday Concert Series, Church of the Good Shepherd, 543 Main Street, Roosevelt Island, New York. Please visit www.goodshepherdchapel.net for details.
A solo recital at Hunter College. Works by living American composers, including the world premiere of Phillip Ramey's "Djebe Bani" (Saharan Meditation), the Lang Recital Hall, Hunter College North, 695 Park Avenue at 69th Street.
Lautreamont Concerts presents solo and chamber works at The Liederkranz Foundation, 6 East 87th Street, New York City. Please visit www.LautreamontConcerts.org for details.
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