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SUMMARY:Henry Kramer
DESCRIPTION:\n\nBIOGRAPHY\n\n\nPraised by The Cleveland Classical Review fo
 r his “astonishingly confident technique” and The New York Times for 
 “thrilling [and] triumphant” performances\, pianist Henry Kramer is de
 veloping a reputation as a musician of rare sensitivity who combines styli
 sh programming with insightful and exuberant interpretations. In 2016\, he
  garnered international recognition with a Second Prize win in the Queen E
 lisabeth Competition in Brussels. Most recently\, he was awarded a 2019 Av
 ery Fisher Career Grant by Lincoln Center – one of the most coveted hono
 rs bestowed on young American soloists.\nKramer began playing piano at the
  relatively late age of 11 in his hometown of Cape Elizabeth\, Maine. One 
 day\, he found himself entranced by the sound of film melodies as a friend
  played them on the piano\, inspiring him to teach himself on his family
 ’s old upright. His parents enrolled him in lessons shortly thereafter\,
  and within weeks\, he was playing Chopin and Mozart.\n\nHenry emerged as 
 a winner in the National Chopin Competition in 2010\, the Montreal Interna
 tional Competition in 2011 and the China Shanghai International Piano Comp
 etition in 2012. In 2014 he was added to the roster of Astral Artists\, an
  organization that annually selects a handful of rising stars among string
 s\, piano\, woodwinds and voice candidates. The following year\, he earned
  a top prize in the Honens International Piano Competition.\n\nKramer has 
 performed “stunning” solo recital debuts\, most notably at Alice Tully
  Hall as the recipient of the Juilliard School’s William Petschek Award\
 , as well as at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. At his Philadelphia debut\, P
 eter Dobrin of The Philadelphia Inquirer remarked\, “the 31-year-old pia
 nist personalized interpretations to such a degree that works emerged anew
 . He is a big personality.”\n\nA versatile performer\, Kramer has soloed
  in concertos with the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra\, Shanghai Philharmonic 
 Orchestra\, Indianapolis Symphony and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra\,
  among many others\, collaborating with conductors such as Marin Alsop\, G
 erard Schwarz\, Stéphane Denève\, Jan Pascal Tortelier and Hans Graf. Up
 coming performances in the 2019-20 season include a return engagement with
  the National Orchestra of Belgium performing Beethoven’s Concerto No. 4
 \, as well as debuts with the Columbus and Hartford Symphony Orchestras pl
 aying Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3.\n\nHis love for the chamber m
 usic repertoire began early in his studies while a young teenager. A sough
 t-after collaborator\, he has appeared in recitals at the Chamber Music So
 ciety of Lincoln Center\, the Mainly Mozart Festival\, the Mostly Mozart F
 estival\, and La Jolla Music Society’s Summerfest. His recording with vi
 olinist Jiyoon Lee on the Champs Hill label received four stars from BBC M
 usic Magazine. This year\, Gramophone UK praised Kramer’s performance on
  a recording collaboration (Cedille Records) with violist Matthew Lipman f
 or “exemplary flexible partnership.” Henry has also performed alongsid
 e Emmanuel Pahud\, the Calidore and Pacifica Quartets\, Miriam Fried\, as 
 well as members of the Berlin Philharmonic and Orchestra of St. Luke’s.\
 n\nTeaching ranks among his greatest joys. Since 2018\, Kramer has held th
 e L. Rexford Distinguished Chair in Piano at the Schwob School of Music at
  Columbus State University in Columbus\, Georgia. Throughout his multiface
 ted career\, he has also had positions at Smith College and the University
  of Missouri Kansas City Conservatory of Dance and Music.\n\nKramer gradua
 ted from the Juilliard School\, where he worked with Julian Martin and Rob
 ert McDonald. He received his Doctorate of Musical Arts from the Yale Scho
 ol of Music under the guidance of Boris Berman. His teachers trace a pedag
 ogical lineage extending back to Beethoven\, Chopin and Busoni. Kramer is 
 a Steinway Artist.\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlbeniz: from Iberia:
  Book I - 1. Evocation\nAlbeniz: from Iberia: Book I - 3. El Corpus Christ
 i en Sevilla\nHaydn: Piano Sonata in E Major\, Hob. XVI:31\nKernis: Mornin
 gsong and Mist (Aubade sous Brume)\nRavel: from Gaspard de la Nuit: 1. Ond
 ine\nRavel: from Miroirs: 4. Alborada del Gracioso\nScarlatti: Keyboard So
 nata in D Major K. 96 L. 465\nZaimont: Attars\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGe
 t Tickets\n\n
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