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David Holzman Performs in Maui and San Francisco
Last season, David Holzman received acclaim for both his award-winning recording and his various recitals here and abroad. This season, he has maintained his activities on both fronts. Most recently, he has given recitals in the Ebb and Flow Festival on Maui and given the Jean Hartman Memorial Concert at Temple Emanuel in San Francisco.
In the Maui program, which took place on a mountain top mansion with Kahului Bay and Mt. Haleakala in the background, classics by Beethoven and Brahms were combined with recent works from composers from China, South America and The United States. The Maui News described the concert as follows, "The acclaim Holzman has received during his career is well-deserved. The man is a piano monster who passionately wrests notes from the instrument...Chou Wen-Chung's "The Willows Are New" describes another farewell, this one without hope of return. Holzman communicated the dark melancholy and the strident cries of grief in a way that brought an immediacy and personal connection to the parting. An audience member commented that Holzman plays classical music as though it's new and new music as if it's classical, an apt observation."
After Holzman's recital in San Francisco, he traveled to George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch where he spent two days recording works by California composers William Susman and Daniel Feinsmith which will be released on a future disc. His recording of Matthew Greenbaum's Elegy will be released shortly on an all-Greenbaum CD on the Centaur label. After his Grammy-nominated and Indy-winning Wolpe CD, Holzman now turns to a new CD for Bridge which features masterpieces by the great American composers Roger Sessions and Ralph Shapey.
For more on David Holzman please visit his Web site.
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