DAVID KALHOUS
David Kalhous is increasingly gaining recognition and critical acclaim in the United States and Europe for his wide-ranging repertoire and adventurous programming spanning more than three centuries. He has appeared as a soloist with Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK, Prague Philharmonia, Israel Symphony Orchestra, Moravian Philharmonic, and Chamber Philharmonia Pardubice. As a recitalist and a chamber musician, he performed at the Prague Spring Festival, Gilmore Keyboard Festival, Czech Philharmonic Chamber Music Series, Czech Radio's Studio Live Rising Stars Series. In New York City, he appears at Bargemusic, Symphony Center, and Spectrum; in Chicago, at PianoForte Foundation and Constellation. Kalhous regularly performs, lectures, and teaches masterclasses at leading American, European, and Israeli universities and conservatories.
He has recorded for Czech Radio and Television, and has written, produced, and hosted programs devoted to piano music for Prague’s Classic FM Radio. David Kalhous’ interest in new music has resulted in collaboration with many composers who have dedicated works to him. He regularly performs with Fonema Consort in Chicago and Konvergence in Prague. He gave the debut performance of Ligeti's piano Études and Feldman's For Bunita Marcus in Prague, and is preparing a CD of eight newly commissioned works for piano.
David Kalhous studied at the Prague Conservatory with Jaroslav Čermák. He subsequently attended Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, Rubin Academy of Music at Tel-Aviv University, and Yale University, and studied with Paul Badura Skoda, Emil Leichner, Victor Derevianko, David Northington, and Peter Frankl. He also worked with Jerome Lowenthal at the Music Academy of the West. David Kalhous holds a DMA from Northwestern University, where he worked with Ursula Oppens. He previously taught at Texas Tech University School of Music.
http://www.davidkalhous.com
HUIZI ZHANG SHORT BIO
Huizi Zhang is an active performer of solo and chamber music in the United States and abroad. She embraces a wide range of repertoire and styles, particularly interested in 21st century music, by giving piano solo premiering concerts at Beijing Concert Hall (China), Esplanade Performing Art Center in Singapore, National Sawdust (Brooklyn, NY), Opera Center America and The Dimenna Center of Classical Music (New York City), N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art (Detroit, MI), and Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall. She is also a skilled music instructor. Huizi earned doctoral degree in Piano Performance at Florida State University, B.M. degree from Central Conservatory of Music and a M.M. degree from University of Michigan with a double degree in Piano Performance and Chamber Music.
PROGRAM
Robert Schumann (arr. Georges Bizet)
6 Studies in Canonic Form for Pedal Piano, Op. 56 (arr. for piano four hands by Georges Bizet)
1. Nicht zu schnell
2. Mit innigem Ausdruck
3. Andantino
4. Innig
5. Nicht zu schnell
6. Adagio
György Kurtág (b. 1926)
Selections from Játékok (Games) Book IV and Bach transcriptions for piano four hands:
Köd-kánon (Fog-canon)
Dühös korál (Furious choral)
Pöttyön pötty (Dot and Spot)
Hommage à Halmágyi Mihály
Prelúdium és valcer F-ben (Prelude and Waltz in F)
Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (God's Own Time Is the Very Best of Times), BWV 106
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Sonata for piano four hands
I. Prelude
II. Rustique
III. Final
György Ligeti (1923-2006)
Sonatina for piano four hands
I. Allegro
II. Andante
III. Vivace
Henrik Ajax (b. 1980)
Valse déconstruite for piano four hands (2010)
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Valse from Six Morceaux for piano four hands, Op. 11