Lise De La Salle, piano

Start: Friday, November 20, 2009 - 7:30 PM
End: Friday, November 20, 2009
Location: Fine Arts Concert Hall
Contact: Janelle Fletcher, janelle@uwyo.edu, 766-5139

Event Details:

They're getting younger every year. First live concert broadcast, on Radio France, at the age of 9; first-prize winner of the European Young Concert Artists Auditions at 15; first-prize at the American Young Concert Artists International Auditions at 16; first CD, of Liszt and Bach (Gramophone "recording of the month"), at 17. We were delighted when we heard her play a Mozart concerto with the Gulbenkian Orchestra, and then blown away by her performance of Prokofiev transcriptions. After our pianists from Hungary (Anderszewski), Italy (Cabassi), and Argentina (Fliter), we thought it about time to feature a French pianist (born and raised in Cherbourg, the port city that completed its harbor defenses against Napoleon 35 years after the Battle of Waterlooah, the French). De la Salle will also be performing Saint-Saëns Piano 2nd Piano Concerto, on November 19, with Mike Griffith and the UW Symphony Orchestra, right after she performs the same concerto with the Boston Symphony.

Tickets are $18 for the general public and $15 for students and seniors. Tickets may be purchased online at http://www.uwyo.edu/FINEARTS/eventsticketed.asp or by calling (307) 766-6666.