Final Monsters performance April 5 at Elizabethtown College

Gretna Music's Steinway piano celebration takes bow with buffet, conversation, concert

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Shai Wosner

ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (03/12/2014)(readMedia)-- Monsters of the Steinway, Gretna Music's two-year celebration of the new Elizabethtown College Steinway piano, draws to a close with the final performance at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 5.

Israeli-born pianist Shai Wosner takes the stage at the College's Leffler Chapel and Performance Center to perform Schubert's B-flat Major Sonata. Wosner, of international recognition, has performed a broad range of repertoire from Beethoven to Mozart to Schoenberg and Ligeti. He has been widely praised for his interpretations of Franz Schubert's solo works, both in concert and in recording.

The pianist enjoyed a broad musical education from a very early age, studying piano with Emanuel Krasovsky as well as composition, theory and improvisation with André Hajdu. He later studied at The Juilliard School with Emanuel Ax. He made his debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 2010 and has appeared in concert across North America.

He is sought after by colleagues for his versatility and spirit of partnership. As a chamber musician, he has collaborated with numerous esteemed artists including Martin Fröst, Lynn Harrell, Dietrich Henschel, Cho-Liang Lin, Christian Tetzlaff, and Pinchas Zukerman.

Wosner is a former member of Lincoln Center's Chamber Music Society Two and performs regularly at various chamber music festivals. His most recent recording, released by Onyx in October 2011, features a selection of solo piano works by Schubert that incorporate elements of folk music.

He is a recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award, and he was in residence with the BBC as a New Generation Artist.

Wosner now resides in New York City with his wife and two children.

A pre-concert buffet dinner is available from 5:30 to 7 p.m. for $20. Reservations for dinner are needed by Monday, March 31. A free pre-concert Classical Conversation about the evening's program will be led by Dr. Justin Badgerow, Elizabethtown College Professor of Fine and Performing Arts, at 6:30 p.m.

Cost of the concert is $20 and $15.

Contact: Carl Kane at 717-361-1508 or kanec@etown.edu

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