Dmitri Ratser Plays Chopin, Liszt, and Rachmaninoff
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Friday, June 25th at 7:30 PM
Steinway Hall - Dallas
Join us Friday, June 25th for a solo piano recital by Steinway Artist, Dmitri Ratser at Steinway Hall - Dallas. The passionate Russian virtuoso from Moscow will dazzle the audience with the performance of:
CHOPIN Polonaise, C-sharp minor
Waltz, A minor
Waltz, C-sharp minor
Scherzo No. 1, B minor
LISZT Vallee d'Obermann from Années de pèlerinage
RACHMANINOFF Sonata No. 2, B-flat minor
About Dmitri Ratser
The Russian pianist Dmitri Ratser have been giving solo recitals and also appearing with orchestras regularly in the U.S. since his American debut in 1990. He has performed at Kennedy Center with the National Symphony Orchestra under Mstislav Rostropovich, solo appearance at Carnegie Hall in New York and the Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena, California, and with symphony orchestras in over thirty-five cities. He has performed with other stellar pianists, Andre Watts and Ivo Pogorelich. Recently he has toured in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Germany, the Dominican Republic, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The Los Angeles Times praises his playing for its "mesmerizing single-mindedness, its inexorable force and its stunning virtuosity."
Ratser studied under Yakov Flierthe, who learned from Alexander Ziloti, who was a student of Franz Liszt and a cousin of Sergey Rachmaninoff. Ratser’s artistry reveals a unique combination of European pianistic style of Liszt and the Russian tradition of Rachmaninoff. He won the first prize in Moscow's All-Soviet union Rachmaninoff Competition and the First Prize in Budapest's Liszt International Jubilee Competition. Ratser is a Steinway Artist and currently teaches the Moscow Conservatory as faculty.
For more info on Ratser and his recordings with Art Classics, please visit: www.ratser.com or contact him at draster@yahoo.com.