A concert by internationally acclaimed pianist Richard Goode on Saturday, Sept. 29, is the highlight of a celebration of a special gift by the Elizabeth and Michel Sorel Charitable Organization to the School of Music at the State University of New York at Fredonia.
Mr. Goode will perform in the Juliet J. Rosch Recital Hall on the campus of SUNY Fredonia at 8 p.m. The concert is the first performance in the season’s Rosch Musical Arts Series.
The program includes the Prelude and Fugue in G minor, Prelude and Fugue in B major, and four sinfonias by J.S. Bach; Sonata in D major by Haydn; Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 by Beethoven; three preludes by Debussy; and the Impromptu in F-sharp major, Op. 36; Nocturne in B major, Op. 62 No. 1; Polonaise in F-sharp minor, Op. 44, and three mazurkas by Chopin.
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A celebratory cocktail hour and dinner will precede the concert at 5 p.m. in Café G in the Williams Center on campus, and will include reminiscences by piano students of the late Fredonia Distinguished Professor Claudette Sorel, who was a member of the faculty for 20 years and head of its piano area.
The concert will be followed by an exclusive post-concert reception with Mr. Goode. He will also present a master class with SUNY Fredonia piano students on Friday, Sept. 28, at 5 p.m., in Rosch Recital Hall.
All events are open to the public; tickets may be purchased for individual events or packaged at a discounted rate for the entire event. A special VIP package is available. Tickets are available from the SUNY Fredonia Ticket Office in the Williams Center at 716-673-3501.
Mr. Goode has been hailed for music making of tremendous emotional power, depth and expressiveness, and has been acknowledged worldwide as one of today’s leading interpreters of Classical and Romantic music. He studied with Elvira Szigeti and Claude Frank, with Nadia Reisenberg at the Mannes College of Music, and with Rudolf Serkin at the Curtis Institute. His many honors have included the Young Concert Artists Award, First Prize in the Clara Haskil Competition, the Avery Fisher Prize, the Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance, and a Grammy Award. He received national attention when he played all five Beethoven concerti with the Baltimore Symphony under the direction of David Zinman, and when he performed the complete cycle of his sonatas at New York’s 92nd Street Y and Kansas City’s Folly Theatre. In 2005-2006 he presented the highly praised eight-event Carnegie Hall Perspectives.
During the summer of 2006, Mr. Goode appeared with James Levine and the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood, opened a new festival in Toronto, and returned to the Edinburgh Festival in his regular role as Artist-in-Residence as well as a featured soloist at the Proms in London. Last season he performed a recital in Carnegie Hall, a multiple-event residency for San Francisco Performances, and recitals in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Kansas City, Ottawa and Vancouver. He performed Mozart in Berlin with Blomstedt and the Deutsche Symphonie and recitals in London, Birmingham and major cities in Europe.
Mr. Goode’s recent recording of the Beethoven concerti with Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra will be released this year by Nonesuch, and he also serves with Mitsuko Uchida as co-artistic director of the Marlboro Music School and Festival in Marlboro, Vt.
The celebration will also include the dedication at 4 p.m. on Saturday of a Steinway concert grand piano purchased as a direct result of the financial gift to the Fredonia College Foundation by the Sorel organization. The dedication will be followed by a special concert by a former student of Miss Sorel’s, Tony Caramia, ’73. Both of these afternoon events are free and the public is invited to attend.
Miss Sorel is believed to be the youngest and first woman to earn the title of Distinguished Professor from the State University of New York Board of Trustees from a faculty at that time of 30,000. The Sorel charitable organization was founded by Miss Sorel in 1996 in honor of her parents. The organization’s gift this year to the university allowed the purchase of the piano and also includes a scholarship endowment in honor of Miss Sorel, who passed away in 1999.
For further information on the two-day celebration, persons should contact Jennifer Darrell-Sterbak of the School of Music at 716-673-3686 or via e-mail at sterbajd@fredonia.edu.
