Program:
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809) Sonata in E flat major Hob. XVI:52
Carl Maria von Weber (1786 - 1826)
Sonata no. 2 in A flat major op. 39
George Gershwin, transcribed from player piano rolls and acoustic recordings (1898 - 1937)
Swanee;
Novelette in Fourths;
Do - Do - Do;
Kickin’ the Clouds Away; Foxtrots
About the Musician:
Sara Davis Buechner is a classical concert pianist of noteworthy accomplishment, virtuosic mastery, artistic sensitivity and extraordinary versatility. A major prizewinner of many of the world's most prestigious international piano competitions -- Reine Elisabeth of Belgium, Leeds, Salzburg, Sydney and Vienna including a Bronze Medal of the 1986 Tschaikowsky International Piano Competition in Moscow.
With an active repertoire of over 100 piano concertos ranging from A (Albeniz) to Z (Zimbalist), she has appeared as soloist with North America's most prominent orchestras: the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Saint Louis and San Francisco Symphony Orchestras; the Vancouver, Victoria, Edmonton and Calgary Symphony Orchestras; and abroad with the Japan Philharmonic, City of Birmingham (U.K.) Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Kuopio (Finland) Philharmonic, Slovak Philharmonic, and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León (Spain). She was a featured artist at the "Piano 2000" Gala Concerts in the Kennedy Center with the National Symphony, and has performed solo recitals at Lincoln Center's "Mostly Mozart" Festival.
Ms. Buechner's recording of piano music by George Gershwin was selected as a Recording of the Month by Stereophile magazine; her 1997 world première recording of the Busoni version of Bach's "Goldberg" Variations was profiled in the Arts & Leisure section of the New York Times; and her recording of Hollywood piano concertos by Bernard Herrmann and Franz Waxman won Germany's Deutsches Schauplatten Preis for best soundtrack.
Ms. Buechner has commissioned new works, and given premières of important new music and film scores by Larry Bell, Dorothy Chang, Stephen Chatman, Pierre Charvet, John Corigliano, Richard Danielpour, Takehiko Gokita, Ray Green, Miriam Hyde, Dick Hyman, Henry Martin, William Thomas McKinley, Jared Miller, Paul Moravec, Joaquin Nin-Culmell, Yukiko Nishimura, David Raksin and Charles Wuorinen. She appears regularly with the Film Society of Lincoln Center, as one of the few pianists to actively perform piano scores to silent movies -- notably the 150-minute long restored version of Ben-Hur (1925), and the Danish classic Master of the House (1925). Ms. Buechner has also collaborated on dance projects with performance artist Nori Nke Aka, mime/mask-maker Yayoi Hirano and choreographer Neta Pulvermacher; and toured internationally with the Mark Morris Dance Group.
New York City, NY; NYC