March 10, 2008

CONTACT
Kathy Myrick
Executive Director
970.382.9753
sanjuansymphony@musician.org

For Immediate Release

San Juan Symphony to present Joseph Kalichstein in Adams Foundation Piano Recitals

Tel Aviv-born pianist Joseph Kalichstein will wrap up the San Juan Symphony’s 2008 Adams Foundation Piano Recital Series with a pair of performances on March 29 at 7:30 p.m. at the Totah Theater in Farmington, NM and Sunday, March 30 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.   The program for the evening is entitled The Many Sides of Brahms.

Acclaimed for the heartfelt intensity and technical mastery of his playing, pianist Joseph Kalichstein enthralls audiences throughout the United States and Europe, winning equal praise as orchestral soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. He is also the first Chamber Music Advisor to the Kennedy Center, an appointment that grew out of his close association with the Center over many seasons. He has given solo recitals there, appeared many times with the National Symphony Orchestra, and played a major role in chamber music festivals devoted to Brahms and Beethoven.

Recently, Mr. Kalichstein was featured with the National Symphony at its season-opening concert commemorating Music Director Leonard Slatkin’s 60th birthday. He has also participated in the Ravinia Festival’s ongoing Mozart celebration, performing two of the piano concerti with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under James Conlon, Ravinia’s new music director. In summer 2006, he appeared as guest soloist and chamber music collaborator in Aspen, Chautauqua and La Jolla. During the 2006-07 season, Mr. Kalichstein toured the U.S. and Europe with the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson piano trio that included a performance at Carnegie Hall.

Recent engagements have included performances with the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Boston Symphony, the London Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony and return tours to Japan, Germany, New Zealand and Scandinavia. He continues to record and play in music capitals worldwide with the famed Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson piano trio, with whom he appeared in the opening month’s festivities of Carnegie’s new Zankel Hall.  In March 2006, an emotional and musical highlight for Mr. Kalichstein was a special tour, which included several major U.S. cities, as a soloist with the Juilliard orchestra under James DePriest, helping to celebrate his alma mater’s 100th birthday.

Mr. Kalichstein came to the United States in 1962. His principal teachers included Joshua Shor in Israel and Edward Steuermann and Ilona Kabos at The Juilliard School. Prior to his 1969 Leventritt Award victory, he won the Young Concert Artists Auditions. As a result, he gave a heralded New York recital debut and, at the invitation of Leonard Bernstein, performed Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with the New York Philharmonic in a nationally televised concert on CBS.

The New York-based Adams Foundation is an organization dedicated to restoring the piano recital in communities throughout the United States. 

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