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September October November December ... Back to What's New Table of Contents November 2002 Dynamic Duo Valentina Lisitsa and Alexei Kuznetsoff Debut at Weill Recital Hall, Tuesday, December 17, 8 pm John Rutter Conducts His Magnificat Messiah ... ELYSIUM Performs with Pianist David Oei, Weill Recital Hall, Sunday, December 1, 2002 For Immediate Release November 4, 2002 Dynamic Duo Valentina Lisitsa and Alexei Kuznetsoff Debut at Weill Recital Hall, Tuesday, December 17, 8 pm New York, NY - The keyboard duo of Valentina Lisitsa and Alexei Kuznetsoff makes its Weill Recital Hall debut on Tuesday, December 17, at 8 pm. The husband and wife pair will exhibit its fiery pianism with two works by Schubert: in G minor for piano duet, Op. 54, and Fantasy in F minor for piano duet, Op. 103. Additionally, Ms. Lisitsa, who is making her Weill Recital Hall solo debut, will interpret 24 Chopin Etudes from Op. 10 and Op. 25. Pianists Valentina Lisitsa and Alexei Kuznetsoff virtually exploded onto the American music scene in their formal United States debut in Chicago. This young piano-duo has garnered several competition prizes in its native Ukraine and continues to win critical acclaim in the United States as well. By the time Lisitsa and Kuznetsoff met at the Kiev Conservatory, they were both winners of numerous international, national, and local solo and chamber music competitions. They combined their talents and began working as a two-piano team with Ludmilla Tsvierko. In 1990, after only a few weeks of preparation, Lisitsa and Kuznetsoff captured first prize at the Ukrainian Chamber Music Competition. In 1991 the duo won first prize in the Third International Murray Dranoff Two Piano Competition. Shortly after their victory, Lisitsa and Kuznetsoff made their home in the United States and recently became American citizens.

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Listener Magazine Volume 2, Number 4 (Autumn 1996) Virtuosa Valentina !: Works by Rossini-Ginzburg, Liszt, Schubert-Liszt, Strauss-Godowsky, Valentina Lisitsa, piano, Audiofon CD 72055 Valentina : Works by Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Weber, Schubert-Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Valentlna Lisista, piano, Audiofon CD 72056 I'm going to say right off the bat that this woman is the successor to Martha Argerich. In fact, I find her playing more musical, exciting, and compelling than the great Argerich. And I don't mean the "young" Argerich. I mean the one playing today. Okay. I said it and feel better for it. Anyway, I played these recordings for four or five people who know music and asked them to guess who it was. Two of them said it sounded like Evgeny Kissin (one said Kissin after he's loosened up a bit). One guessed it was Argerich in her youth, and one mistook it for Howard Shelley. Another suggested Michael Pletnev. Not bad. All of them said that they couldn't remember a piano so vivid and musical. Art Dudley, my revered editor, noticed its immediate freshness and "innocence." He asked, ironically, "Doesn't she know she's not supposed to play like that? She's a threat to the piano world!" The real technical stunners are Weber's "Rondo Brilliant" on Valentina and the Rossini-Ginzburg "Paraphrase on Figaro's Aria from The Barber of Seville" on Virtuosa Valentina! You'll find the same kind of clarifying brilliance in the most lucid performance of the Prokofiev Seventh I've heard in years, also on Virtuoso Valentina! I cannot remember a more exciting or original version (yes, I said original!) of one of the oldest pianistic warhorses, "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2" by Liszt, a piece my piano teacher used to quietly state just may be the most exciting ten minutes in Western music. Her Schubert-Liszt songs (six on two records) are definitive and can compare with Vladimir Viardo's performances, a pianist I normally think of as owning this music.

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Lisitsa and Kuznetsoff are doubly delightful By John Ardoin Music Critic of the Dallas Morning News A most unusual recording session took place in Miami daring the late summer of 1995. The Russian born and now Dallas-based duo-pianists Valentina Lisitsa and Alexei Kuznetsoff were asked by a Florida company, Audiofon Records, to make their first commercial disc. What happened over a period of three days was beyond anyone's expectations. As producer Julian Kreeger writes in the album notes, "As soon as they began to play I realized that something very special was happening. There was an electrifying energy and spontaneity throughout their playing and none of the reticence that is all too often found in recordings." What resulted was not a single CD, but four — two of two-piano music and two solo CDs featuring Ms. Lisitsa, the technical powerhouse of the pair. What made the sessions even more remarkable, however, was that Ms. Lisitsa's CDs have been issued with no edits. In fact, the covers of Virtuosa Valentina (72055) and Valentina (72056) boast "UNEDITED PERFORMANCES," a first, as far as I can remember, when It comes to studio recording*. Paired with this vivid trio of contemporary works are glittering performances of Chopin's Rondo. Op. 73, the demonic Don Juan Fantasy of Liszt, Debussy's littIe-played and miraculous Enblanc et noir and finally Leopold Godowsky's Infectious two-piano version of Weber's Invitation to the Dance. As this is less than half of the solo repertory Ms. Lisitsa and Mr. Kuznetsoff command, Audiofon has its work cut out for it.

24. NapaValleySymphony.org - Ms. lisitsa, along with her husband, alexei kuznetsoff, won prizes in Concerto forTwo Pianos with alexei Kuznesoff on valentina lisitsa is an Audiofon artist. http://www.napavalleysymphony.org/singleperformer_singleconcert.html&id=10

Home Concerts Venues Program Notes Subscription Prices Single Ticket Prices ... Contact Us Support Us Donor Benefits The Conductor's Circle Make a Gift Now Build a Legacy: The Endowment Education Symphony League Press Room Links Valentina Lisitsa Valentina Lisitsa piano Ukrainian born pianist Valentina Lisitsa is capturing the attention of audiences throughout the world for her stunning virtuosity and unequaled sense of lyricism in an already formidable repertoire of romantic and late classical masterpieces. Ms. Lisitsa has been acclaimed for bringing to the concert stage a rare technical mastery combined with deep musical understanding. Valentina often collaborates with other musicians for chamber music events. She has performed with Ida Haendel, Vadim Repin, and William DeRosa. Most recently, Ms. Lisitsa has given recitals at the Grant Park Music Festival, the Seoul Arts Center in South Korea, the Milan Conservatory, and the University of California at Berkeley. She also recently completed a highly successful two-month tour with the Prague Chamber Orchestra in the United States. Highlights of the 2001-02 season include a 12-concert U.S. tour with the Russian State Symphony Orchestra performing in New York (Avery Fisher Hall) and Philadelphia, as well as other cities; a European tour with Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra; and solo and chamber music recitals in Milan, Vienna, Amsterdam, Glasgow, New York, Chicago, Miami, San Diego, and others.

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M ARK'S M USIC G ALLERY Table of Contents A B C D ... MISC V van Stratum, Ron - features information, discography, gig schedule, and more. Vero, Tina - includes biography, show dates, sound clips, and other phunky pholk phun. VonRa Vacume - ranging from merely strange to totally ridiculous. Heavy Plastic from the masters of junk music. V@ V-roys Music and News V8 Interceptor Vacuum - with detailed history, video fragments, illustrated interviews, passports, live pictures, lyrics, sound files, and an illustrated discography. Vagabond Groove - We have just released our first indie CD. We recorded it with money that we've made touring Canada for the past couple of years as Road Apples, that's our tribute to The Tragically Hip. Vagabond Poet Vai, Steve@ Vaikea Lapsi - combining elements from prog rock, jazz and traditional finnish folk music. Exciting combination of instruments, for example a 36-string kannel. Val Holler Band Valby, John@ Valdosta State University Tuba/Euphonium Ensemble Valens, Ritchie@ ... Valensia - bombastic, melodic, futuristic rock. Valentin, Dave@

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