Southport, CT – Pequot Library’s acoustically renowned Auditorium will be filled with the music of talented pianist Alex Beyer, in a piano concert featuring the works of Haydn, Beethoven and Ravel, on Thursday, January 19, 2017 at 7:00pm. Tickets are $20.00 each/online in advance at www.pequotlibrary.org or $25.00/each at the door. Proceeds fund music programs at Pequot Library.
Alex Beyer, 22, has received warm praise for his performances nationally and internationally. In 2016, he was the bronze medalist in the Queen Elisabeth Competition, and was named one of five finalists of the American Pianists Association Awards.
In the last year, Alex Beyer has been a guest soloist with the Brussels Philharmonic, the National Orchestra of Belgium, the Royal Orchestra of Wallonia, the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra, and the Irish National Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed with the Milwaukee, Charlotte, Hartford, New Haven, Waterbury, and Bridgeport Symphony Orchestras, among others.
He received Sixth Prize at the 2015 US Chopin Competition. He was the recipient of Third Prize, as well as the Beethoven and Irish National Symphony Orchestra special awards, at the 2015 Dublin International Piano Competition. Beyer was a 2012 US Presidential Scholar in the Arts.
He has studied with Yoshie Akimoto, Matti Raekallio and Melvin Chen. He is currently studying with Russell Sherman and Wha Kyung Byun at the New England Conservatory, and is studying mathematics at Harvard.
In the summer months, he has attended the Killington Music Festival, Vianden Music Festival in Luxembourg, the Saarburg Festival in Germany, and the Taos School of Music. In August 2015 he attended The International Holland Music Sessions; he will return to Holland in January 2017 as a part of the "New Masters on Tour" series.
He has collaborated with conductors Stephane Denève, Marin Alsop, Paul Meyer, Federico Cortese, Alan Buribayev, Grzegorz Nowak, Constantine Kitsopolous, T. Francis Wada, Carolyn Kuan, Leif Bjaland, and Gustav Meier, and has regularly performed with Nicholas Kitchen and Yeesun Kim, founding members of the Borromeo String Quartet. He has recently performed in the Palais des Beaux Arts, Flagey Studio 4, the Irish National Concert Hall, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Paul Hall, Stamford Palace Theater, Weill Recital Hall, the New World Center and Woolsey Hall. As the winner of the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra Concerto Competition, he made his Sanders Theater debut in 2015, and as a winner of the NEC Piano Honors Competition he made his Jordan Hall debut in 2014.
As of the press date his piano concert program “Variations” at Pequot Library features the Haydn sonata in c minor Hob XVI: 29; Beethoven "Eroica" Variations, Op 35; Kirchner Interlude II; Carter Câtenaires; and Ravel La Valse.
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