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Join Piano Lovers on May 7 for a special program celebrating Brahms’ birthday, the week of the American premiere of the composer’s epic Piano Quintet arranged for piano four hands.
The 7:30 p.m. program at Coral Gables Congregational United Church of Christ, 3010 De Soto Blvd., Coral Gables, features pianists Lindsay Garritson and Anastasiya Naplekova. Tickets are $25.
The program includes Schubert Lebensstürme – Allegro in A Minor, D 947; Brahms Piano Quintet in F, op. 34, and more.
About the artists
Dr. Lindsay Garritson has performed throughout the United States and abroad since the age of 4. She has appeared on stages such as Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, and Place des Arts (Montreal), and has been featured as soloist with the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, Keweenaw Symphony (Michigan), Las Colinas Symphony Orchestra (Texas), Orchestre Métropolitain (Montreal), Atlantic Classical Orchestra (Florida), Orquestra Sinfônica Barra Mansa (Brazil), the Yale Philharmonic Orchestra, and the European Philharmonic Orchestra, among others.
An award-winning performer, Garritson has received top prizes at the Montreal International Piano Competition, USASU Bösendorfer International Piano Competition, and the Mozarteum International Chopin Competition (Salzburg). She was selected as a participant in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition as well as a finalist for the German Piano Award in Frankfurt, Germany.
Garritson holds degrees from Principia College (BA in Music), Yale School of Music (MM and Artist Diploma), and the University of Miami (DMA). Her piano teachers include Santiago Rodriguez, Boris Berman, Luiz de Moura Castro, Choong-Mo Kang, Zena Ilyashov, Emilio Del Rosario, the late Jane Allen, and Jennifer Lim Judd. Garritson currently resides in Jensen Beach.
Critics have hailed Ukrainian-born pianist Anastasiya Naplekova for her “stunning washes of color” (Cincinnati Enquirer), and “powerful pianistic thunder strokes” (The Miami Herald).
Winner of the Rudolf Firkusny International Piano Competition in Prague, Naplekova has performed on concert stages across the globe and appeared in recitals in Italy, Czech Republic, France, Portugal, Morocco, Ukraine, Poland, and the United States.
Among Naplekova’s other achievements came from her award-winning performances at the the Olga Kern International Piano Competition, 2014 Hilton Head International Piano Competition, Sixth International Ignacy Paderewski Piano Competition in Poland, International Piano Competition in memory of Vladimir Horowitz in Ukraine, Wideman Piano Competition, International Piano Competition Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Meryem in Morocco, among others.
Naplekova earned her doctoral degree in piano performance and pedagogy from the University of Miami, Frost School of Music, where she studied with world-renowned pianist Santiago Rodriguez.
Founded in March 2000, Piano Lovers, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, is dedicated to increasing interest in piano music, as well as to introducing people to outstanding pianists.
Visit www.PianoLovers.org.
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