The parents of Alec Van Khajadourian, from Los Angeles, are claiming he is the youngest person ever to play at Carnegie.
He played two short pieces in the NY Classical Debut Awards Gala Concert on Sunday.
We don’t have repertoire details.
There is a followup invitation from Walt Disney Hall.
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From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: The first we heard of Magdalena Kožená was a mid-1990s album of Bach arias, recorded when she was 22. The voice was at once light and dark — […]
The master-minimalist, 87, is spending August in Nova Scotia, according to online feeds. No sign of his inseparable cat. The post Composers in summer (1): Philip Glass appeared first on Slippedisc.
This is properly musicians in sevice of music. The pieces here ae rarely heard, and of the three composers only one has anything like the recognition he deserves, and even then it’s somewhat lacking (Bliss). […]
