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Neal
Larrabee, pianist, has concertized extensively in the United States and
Europe. He has performed in major music centers including New York,
Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Berlin, Warsaw and Moscow. His appearances
as recitalist and as soloist with orchestras have won critical acclaim.
Nominated by the United States Information Service for performing under
the auspices of the American embassies, Larrabee has toured Germany,
Russia, Poland, Romania and Yugoslavia. In Poland, Larrabee has become a
well-known favorite of the concert-going public. There, his highly
regarded interpretations of Chopin have led to recordings, national
broadcasts on television and radio, and engagements in virtually every
major concert hall. Invited for return engagements in Moscow, he performed
at the Moscow Conservatory's Rachmaninoff Hall, the Moscow State
University, and for the concert series presented at the U.S. Ambassador's
Spaso House. Awarded a Fulbright grant for study at the Moscow
Conservatory under Stanislav Neuhaus, Larrabee became the first American
pianist to study in the former Soviet Union under official government
sponsorship. He also studied with Eugene List at the Eastman School of
Music and with Rosina Lhevinne at the Juilliard School, where he was
awarded the Josef Lhevinne Scholarship. He earned his doctorate from the
State University of New York at Stony Brook under Martin Canin. Larrabee
has won honors in the Fifth International Tchaikovsky Competition in
Moscow and the Ninth International Chopin Competition in Warsaw and was
the first pianist to have been awarded the Artur Rubenstein Medal as
winner of the Young Musician's Foundation Competition in Los Angeles. | |
Chopin's Bicentennial
Neal Larrabee, piano, Music by Chopin, Beethoven
co-production with the Polish Studies Program
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 7:30 PM - WELTE HALL, CCSU,
NEW BRITAIN
Concert Program:
Chopin: Piano Concerto No.1, Op.11 in E-minor
Beethoven: "Eroica" Symphony No. 3
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