rofessional Concert Series
rofessional Concert Series
Washington Conservatory of Music presents
Friday, March 6 at 7:30 PM
Westmoreland Congregational
United Church of Christ
One Westmoreland Circle, Bethesda, MD 20816
No tickets - Pay as you can
Beethoven Sonata in D
Schubert, Allegro in a minor ("Lebenssturme")
Brahms, selected Hungarian Dances
Eric Ewazen, A Suite From the Cloud Forest
Mendelssohn, Andante and Allegro Brillant
Pianists Bradford Gowen and Maribeth Gowen have appeared as a duo throughout the United States and abroad including performances of Mozart's Concerto for Two Pianos with several American orchestras and a 1997 Schubert bicentennial concert at the National Gallery of Art devoted to the composer's four-hand works. Both pianists maintain active careers as solo performers.
Bradford Gowen has received national attention since winning first prize in the 1978 Kennedy Center/Rockefeller Foundation International Competition for Excellence in the Performance of American Music. He performed Aaron Copland's Piano Concerto with the National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of the composer and also performed with that orchestra under Mstislav Rostropovich and Maxim Shostakovich. He performed the world premiere of Samuel Adler's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra at the Kennedy Center. His numerous chamber music performances have included appearances at the Library of Congress Summer Chamber Festival. He has also appeared with cellist David Soyer, with the Kronos Quartet, and with the Guarneri Quartet. He is one of the 48 pianists featured in Benjamin Saver's 1993 book The Most Wanted Piano Teachers in the USA and is a faculty member at the University of Maryland and Washington Conservatory.
Maribeth Gowen has appeared as a soloist with the Baltimore Symphony, Chattanooga Symphony, Alabama Symphony, Tucson Symphony, National Chamber Orchestra, and National Gallery of Art Orchestra. She was the national winner in 1980 of the Collegiate Artist Competition sponsored by the Music Teachers National Association, and winner of the 1990 Baltimore Chamber Music Award. Her chamber music performances have included the Lake Placid Summer Chamber Festival, the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, Symphony Hall in Chicago, Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Kredi Arts Festival at the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, and appearances in Yucatan, and a live radio recital in Rotterdam, Holland. DC area recitals include the Barns of Wolf Trap, the German, Finnish, and Turkish embassies, the Kennedy Center, Constitution Hall, the Cosmos Club, the Phillips Collection, the National Gallery of Art among others. She is a faculty member of the Washington Conservatory.
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