January 2, 2008
CONTACT
Kathy Myrick
General Manager
970.382.9753
sanjuansymphony@musician.org
For Immediate Release
San Juan Symphony to present Jeanne
Stark-Iochmans in Adams Foundation Piano Recital
Phenomenal Belgian pianist, Jeanne Stark-Iochmans, will kick off
the San Juan Symphony’s 2008 Adams Foundation Piano Recital
Series with a pair of performances on January 19 at 7:30 p.m. at
the Totah Theater in Farmington, NM and Sunday, January 20 at 3
p.m. at the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College in Durango,
CO. Ticket prices range from $9 - $20 and may be obtained
by calling the Totah at 505-564-3600 or the Community Concert Hall
at 970-247-7657.
Jeanne Stark-lochmans graduated from the Royal Conservatory of
Brussels with the highest marks in the previous twenty years. She
was awarded le Prix de Virtuosite a l’Unanimite avec
Grande Distinction and the gold medal from the Belgian government.
She also won the Laure Van Cutsem prize, appeared as soloist with
her country’s national orchestra and was selected to represent
Belgium at an international festival of modern music at Bayreuth.
An International Queen Elizabeth Competition scholarship brought
Jeanne Stark-lochmans to the United States for a period of advanced
study with Mieczyslaw Horszowski and Edwine Behre.
Following a highly acclaimed debut in New York’s Carnegie
Recital Hall, Ms. Stark-lochmans has delighted audiences in France,
Canada, Mexico, Belgium and the United States. She has given solo
performances in venues from San Francisco’s Masonic Auditorium
and Herbst Theater to New York's Carnegie Recital Hall and Alice
Tully Hall in Lincoln Center. She has been featured as a soloist
with orchestras including the Belgian National Orchestra, under
the direction of Leon Jongen and Edouard Van Remoorteel; the National
Radio Orchestra of Belgium, conducted by Rene Defossez; the New
Haven Symphony; the Boston Civic Orchestra; and the Berkeley Symphony
conducted by Kent Nagano.
For more than fifteen years Ms. Stark-lochmans has been featured
on the Distinguished Artists concert series of Today's Artists
and Four Seasons Concerts. They have presented her in major venues
nationally and as a performer and lecturer during their annual
music festival in Yachats, Oregon. Ms. Stark-lochmans has also
taught and performed for the Montauroux summer music festival in
southern France. She was a faculty member of the Adamant Summer
Piano School in Vermont and served as guest lecturer at Bryn Mawr
College on the works of Olivier Messiaen.
Jeanne Stark-lochmans is regarded with the highest esteem, in Europe
and in America, for her superb musicianship and deeply spiritual
interpretations of classical music's most challenging repertoire
for the piano. Her artistry has earned her the praise of some of
the great musical masters of our time, including composers Darius
Milhaud, Olivier Messiaen and Lou Harrison to name a few.
The New York-based Adams Foundation is an organization dedicated
to restoring the piano recital in communities throughout the United
States. The second pair of Adams Foundation recitals is
scheduled for March 29 and 30 in Farmington and Durango, and will
feature pianist Joseph Kalichstein.
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