CONCERT | PIANO RECITAL | STUDENTS FROM THE JOSEF HAYDN CONSERVATORY

The Austrian Cultural Forum is pleased to host a concert featuring 5 talented young pianists from the Joseph Haydn Conservatory in Eisenstadt, Austria. Paul-Boris Kertsman, Yunus Hermann, Julian Yo Hedenborg, Chang Chih-Hung, and Matias Alzola are students of renowned Russian pianist and teacher, Stanislaw Tichonow.

The Joseph Haydn Conservatory was founded 1971 in Eisenstadt (where the famed composer spent 30 years of his life), and it has come to embody the highest quality in music instruction. Students come from around the globe to pass the entrance exams in order to study instrumental and vocal performance, as well as in the theory of music and composition at this prestigious school. (www.haydnkons.at)

The program for this evening’s recital includes works by Schoenberg, Crumb, Kurtág, Shchedrin, and Bach.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Paul-Boris Kertsman was born in New York in 1998. He began receiving piano lessons at age 5, and in 2006 began studying with Elaine Felder at the Music Institute of Chicago, and in 2009 he began his studies with Stanislaw Tichonov at the Musikschule in Vienna. In 2010 he won the 1st prize at The International Competition of Young Performers at the International Forum “Musical Performance and Pedagogics”‏ in Madrid, and in 2011 he garnered the 1st prize with a piano trio in the category Chamber Music at the Competition “Prima La Musica” in Eisenstadt, Austria.

Yunus Hermann was born in 1992 in Vienna, where he began his piano studies with Stanislaw Tichonow in 2004. He has won prizes at several national and international competitions, and in 2010 he was selected to represent Austria in the European Piano Program, resulting in performances in several countries (Poland, Macedonia, Moldova, etc.), where he also had the opportunity to receive master classes from leading pianists and teachers. He has recently appeared on important stages in Austria and other countries, such as the Hall of the Schola Cantorum in Paris, the hall of the cloister of S. Giovanni Battista de’ Genovesi in Rome, the Golden Hall at the Vienna Musikverein, and the Weill Recital Hall at New York’s Carnegie Hall.

Julian Yo Hedenborg was born in Salzburg (Austria), where he began his piano studies at age 5. After winning several first prizes at the national competition “Prima la Musica” he participated in several chamber music and  contemporary music projects.  He has perfromed extensively with his two brothers, both members of the Vienna Phillharmonic Orchestra, in concert tours in Germany and Japan. Since 2011 he has been a student of  Stanislaw Tichonow at the Joseph Haydn Conservatory in Eisenstadt.

Chang Chih-Hung, born in 1987 in Taipei, Taiwan, started to play the piano at the age of 8, and made his solo-recital debut in Taiwan at age 12. In 2005, he was accepted by the Joseph Haydn Konservatorium Eisenstadt. Chang Chih-Hung has received several different competition prizes, diplomas and critical acclaim, among them the Bösendorfer-Scholarship (2008). In both 2010 and 2011, he received the 1st prize of The International Competition of Young Performers under the International Forum “Musical Performance and Pedagogics”‏ in Madrid (Spain) and Madeira (Portugal).

Originally from Santiago de Chile, Matias Alzola has studied and taken master classes with renowned pianists and teachers such as Stanislaw Tichonow, Edith Fischer, Alexander Rößler, and Paul Gulda. The concert tours of this prize-winning pianist have taken him to countries like Chile, Austria, Moldova, Macedonia, Finland, Italy and Slowakia, where he has played in many prestigious venues such as Weill Recital Hall at New York’s Carnegie Hall.

Stanislaw Tichonow received his professional piano training at the Novosibirsk State M.I.Glinka Conservatory in Russia (M.A. in Piano Performance with Iser Slonim) and at the Moscow State P.I.Tchaikovsky Conservatory (D.M.A. in Piano Performance with Rudolf Kehrer and a Ph.D. in Musicology with Mstislav Smirnov). As a representative of Theodor Leschetizky’s tradition, he intensively studied the work and life of the famed musician (1830-1915) and published the book “Leschetizky und sein Wiener Kreis” (Vienna, 2001).
Stanislaw Tichonow performs frequently in piano solo recitals, as well as chamber music with his own Viennese Leschetizky Trio, throughout Austria, Russia, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Belgium, the U.S. and the Ukraine, at such prestigious venues as the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow or the Vienna Musikverein, the Vienna Konzerthaus. Professor Tichonow gives lectures and master classes throughout Europe, the U.S. (Yale Summer School of Music) and in the Far East. Currently Stanislaw Tichonow serves on the piano faculty of the Joseph Haydn Conservatory in Eisenstadt, Austria.

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