Daniel Beliavsky | Concert-Lecture (piano)

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Photo credit: Nick Mantzel Photography Friday, September 18 6–7:30 p.m. Location: Athenaeum Music & Arts Library BUY TICKETS Join us for a concert-lecture by pianist Daniel Beliavsky where he will discuss and perform Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures from an Exhibition. Inspired by the works of Mussorgsky's friend, architect and painter Viktor Hartmann, this suite explores the piano's expressive and technical range in a strikingly original manner, making it one of the 19th century's most defining large-scale masterpieces. About Daniel Beliavsky Daniel Beliavsky, Ph.D., is an educator, concert pianist, music theorist, composer, and filmmaker. He has performed in Europe and throughout the United States both with orchestra and in recital. Notable engagements include concerto performances with the Milwaukee and New Jersey Symphony Orchestras and the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra. His discography includes the world-premiere recording of composer Lukas Foss’s complete piano works, early works by Donald Harris and David Del Tredici, and music by J.S. Bach, Domenico Scarlatti, Franz Schubert, Frédéric Chopin, and Modest Mussorgsky. Beliavsky’s recordings are available on all major streaming services. Beliavsky produces music documentaries through his production company, Opus1films, which in 2011 released Sonata (1957), a film about the distinguished American composer Donald Harris’s opus one, the Sonata for piano, and about Harris’s early career in Paris. That film was shown at Lincoln Center in New York City and was broadcast on public television. More recently, Beliavsky completed Secret Music and Gay Body of Music, a feature film and a short film respectively, about Pulitzer Prize–winning composer David Del Tredici and the social and cultural impact of his music. These films have won multiple accolades and have been screened at film and music festivals, including QFest Houston, Berlin Shorts, and the Wisconsin Film, Mostly Modern Music, American Music, Lonely Seal…

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