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Stars
Monday, May 5, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. (Program)
First United Methodist Church (Map)
1338 East Santa Clara Street
Ventura, California
Sarah Daneshpour has earned
high accolades of audiences and critics alike. The
Washington Post writes "...she
creates transfixing poetry. She found delightful
details in passage work and incidents that other pianists
treat as routine." The Baltimore Sun relates,
"She produced enough tone for two pianists in her
powerhouse account of Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. 1."
Ms. Daneshpour
has received many awards in international competitions,
including 2nd prize at the 2007 William Kapell International
Piano Competition in Maryland, 1st prize, Gold Medal,
and the Audience Award at the 2007 6th International
Piano Competition in San Jose, California, and a medal
at the Maria Canals International Piano Competition in
Barcelona.
She has performed not only in her native city
of Washington DC, but also in New York, Philadelphia,
Russia, Germany, Finland, Estonia, Denmark, and Sweden,
appearing in such venerable halls as the Kennedy Center,
and the Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in
Moscow. Sara
has also been heard nationwide on public radio.
She is
a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music where she
studied with Leon Fleisher, and presently studies under
the direction of Dr. Oleg Volkov.
| Beethoven |
32 Variations on an Original Theme
in C minor |
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| Chopin |
Ballade No.1 in G minor, Op. 23 |
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| Rachmaninoff |
Variations on a theme by Corelli,
Op. 42 |
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| Prokofiev |
Toccata Op. 11 |
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 The 17-year old Chilean guitarist Gonzalo
Arias Contreras was selected as a finalist in the 2006 Parkening
Young Guitarist Competition, which honors classical guitarist
Christopher Parkening’s lifetime commitment to fostering
musical excellence in young artists as demonstrated by
his mentor, the great Spanish guitarist Andrés Segovia,
and is held every four years.
Contreras is currently
a student of music at Pepperdine University in Malibu.
| J.S. Bach |
Prelude Fugue and Allegro |
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| Agustin Barrios |
Un Sueno en la Floresta |
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| Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco |
Capriccio Diabolico |
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| Alberto Ginastera |
Scherzo and Finale from Sonata, Op.
47 |
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