17-year-old, award-winning pianist Jan Lisiecki March 3, 2012

Lakewood Cultural Center Presents

Jan Lisiecki, pianist

The Lakewood Cultural Center presents 17-year-old, award-winning pianist Jan Lisiecki at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 3 in the intimate 316-seat theater, 470 S. Allison Parkway at Wadsworth Boulevard and West Alameda Avenue. The program includes J.S. Bach's Prelude and Fugue No. 14 in F-sharp Minor, BWV 883 and Book I-Prelude and Fugue 12 in F Minor, BWV 857, Beethoven's Sonata No. 24 in F-sharp Major, Op. 78-I, Franz Liszt's Trois études de concert, S.144, Mendelssohn's Variations Serieuses, Op. 54 in D Minor and Chopin's 12 Etudes Op. #25 .

Adult tickets are $20 and are available by calling 303-987-7845, going online at www.Lakewood.org/CulturalCenter or visiting the Lakewood Cultural Center Box Office. Senior, student and group discounts available. Free parking on-site.

A rapidly emerging international star, this young Canadian is recognized for his poetic and mature playing. He has received several awards, including the 2010 Révélations Radio-Canada Musique and the 2011 Jeune Soliste des Radios Francophones. Lisiecki signed an exclusive recording agreement with Deutsche Grammophon at age 15, and his debut recording features Mozart’s Piano Concertos no. 20, K. 466 and no. 21, K. 467 under Maestro Christian Zacharias with the Kammerorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks.

Performance highlights for the 2011-12 season include the opening concert of the Orchestre de Paris under Paavo Järvi at Salle Pleyel and debuts with the BBC Symphony at the Barbican in London, the Leipzig Radio Symphony at Leipzig Gewandhaus and the Göteborgs Symfoniker. European recital debuts include Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt, Gstaad, Hamburg, Lisbon, Vienna and Zurich.

Born in 1995 in Calgary to Polish parents, Lisiecki has performed at Carnegie Hall (New York), Salle Pleyel and Salle Cortot (Paris), Herkulessaal (Munich), Suntory Hall (Tokyo), Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall, Seoul Arts Centre, Zurich Tonhalle, Herkulessaal (Munich) and has shared the stage with Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma and Pinchas Zukerman. He opened the Seoul International Music Festival in Korea and performed for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and an audience of 100,000 on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

Also a dedicated performer of chamber music, Lisiecki has collaborated with the New Zealand String Quartet, Quatuor Ébène and the Penderecki String Quartet, appearing at festivals including Auvers-sur-Oise, Menton, Merano, Seoul and many others in Canada and the United States.

Lisiecki’s performances have been broadcast on CBC Canada, BBC Radio, Austrian Radio, French Radio, German Radio, Luxembourg Radio, and Polish Radio, as well as on French Television 3 and on TV 1 and 2 in Poland. He was featured in the CBC “Next!” series as one of the most promising young artists in Canada, and in the Joe Schlesinger 2009 CBC National News documentary about his life: “The Reluctant Prodigy.” For more information, please visit www.janlisiecki.com

The 2011-2012 Lakewood Cultural Center Presents season is generously supported by the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD), with appreciation to the citizens of the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District, Colorado Creative Industries, to promote, support and expand the creative industries that drive Colorado’s economy, Sheraton Denver West and the Denver Post Community, improving and enriching the lives of those in our community.