Alon Goldstein, Piano October 2, 2009

Downtown Piano Works warmly welcomes back one of our favorites, international concert pianist Alon Goldstein to our Local Artist Concert Series for an incredible evening of works by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert and more! As always, there is no charge for admission but space is limited to 60. Please RSVP (301) 631-1234 to guarantee a seat for this performance.

Alon Goldstein made his orchestral debut at the age of 18 with the Israeli Philharmonic under the baton of Maestro Zubin Mehta, and in April of 2008 made a triumphant return with Maestro Herbert Blomstedt with Beethoven Concerto No. 1, the same concerto he played the year before with the Philadelphia Orchestra.In recent seasons, Alon has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, the San Francisco, St. Louis, Baltimore, Dallas, Houston, Vancouver, Kansas City and North Carolina Symphonies, the Rhode Island Philharmonic, and orchestras on tour in Paris, Russia, Romania and Bulgaria. His recent Beethoven concerto cycle with the Rockford Symphony, which expanded the traditional concert experience to a multi-media presentation contextualizing Beethoven’s life and work,resulted in unprecedented attendance and subsequent subscriptions. In November 2009 the Kansas City Symphony, under the baton of music director Michael Stern will give the world premier performance of a piano concerto written for Alon by rising star Israeli composer Avner Dorman. Other 2009-10 season appearances with orchestra include Chopin Concerto no. 2 with the Delaware Symphony, MozartConcerto K. 453 with the Jerusalem Symphony and a return engagement with the Bucharest Philharmonic 'George Enescu'. In the 2008-2009 season, Alon made his Carnegie Hall debut in the Mozart Triple Concerto with Joseph Kalichstein and Shai Wosner. He returned to the Rockford Symphony with a series of concerts illuminating the works of Brahms and Schumann, again resulting in enthusiastic audience attendance and response.

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