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Tuesday, May 26th, seating 5:30, Downbeat 6 pm.
The Piano Shop 963 State St. New Haven, CT
RSVP: brent@evanspiano.com or 203-785-8780
There will be refreshments served, a short intermission and refreshments to follow.
PROGRAM:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata in F Major, K. 332
1. Allegro
2. Adagio
3. (Allegro assai)
Franz Liszt: Three Concert Etudes
1. A capriccio; Allegro cantabile
2. A capriccio; Quasi allegretto
3. Allegro affettuoso
intermission
Johann Sebastian Bach: French Suite No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816
1. Allemande
2. Courante
3. Sarabande
4. Gavotte
5. Bourrée
6. Louré
7. Gigue
Frédéric Chopin: Sonata in b minor, Op. 58
1. Allegro maestoso
2. Scherzo: Molto vivace
3. Largo
Thomas Dickinson has performed as soloist across the United States from New York to Florida, to Hawaii and Alaska. He performed abroad in England, the Czech Republic, Russia, Taiwan and China. His London debut was with the Orchestra of St. John’s at St. John’s Smith Square in 1988, after which the conductor invited him to perform the Barber Piano Concerto with the Salomon Orchestra the following season. He was guest artist for the Czech Republic’s 1992 month-long festival celebrating the 500th anniversary of Columbus’ discovery of America, performing Leonard Bernstein’s symphony/concerto “The Age of Anxiety” in Prague’s historic Smetana Hall. Other concerto performances include the Fairbanks Symphony where he stepped in for Edward Auer on four days notice to perform Bartok’s Third Piano Concerto, and the Liaoning (China) Orchestra. With the Chita (Russia) Music College Orchestra, an ensemble of Russian folk instruments, he performed a transcription of Saint Saens’ G Minor Piano Concerto that was later broadcast on Russian national television.
Mr. Dickinson began playing at the age of five, and gave his first recital at the age of seven. His teachers include Sue Liu Wen, Frances Clark, Donald Betts and Donald Currier. Additional studies were with Jerome Lowenthal, Richard Goode and André Watts. He was ITT Fellow for two years of study with Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen of the Paris Conservatory. He earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Yale University where he won both the undergraduate and graduate concerto competitions. He received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Yale in 1991.
In 1988 he was a founding member of Augustine’s Artists Music Festival in Anchorage and was its first President.
In 1989 he was the first Western artist to cross the Sino-Russian border in more than thirty years, and the first to perform in the formerly closed Russian city of Chita in 75 years. He returned to Chita on tour in 1991, and again in 1992 and 1995 to teach and perform.
In 1993 he founded Musical Bridges, Inc., now called Siberian Bridges, Inc., a cultural exchange non-profit which focuses on education support and cooperation between the Upper Midwest of the U.S. and the area east of Lake Baikal, called “Zabaikalye,” and its center, the city of Chita. Siberian Bridges has sent English teachers and teaching materials to Chita and outlying villages and assisted in several exchanges, including a partnership between Southern Connecticut State University and Chita State Technical University. His 2005 recital in Chita lay the foundation for Chita’s first non-governmental classical performance series at the Art Museum, which led to the formation of Sibirsky Mostiy (trans: Siberian Bridges), a new Russian NGO formed to partner with Siberian Bridges on projects of mutual interest.
Mr Dickinson teaches privately in his home in Minneapolis.