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Legato Arts presents Maria Prinz, Piano in Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, May 4 at 2:00 PM
Legato Arts is pleased to present pianist Maria Prinz in recital at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall on Saturday, May 4, 2019 at 2:00 PM. Ms. Prinz returns to Weill Recital Hall with a performance of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert’s epic Sonata in A Major, D. 664, and Strauss.
Tickets are on sale now for the May 4th concert and are available through CarnegieCharge (212-247-7800), online at www.carnegiehall.org and at the Carnegie Hall box office located at 57th St. and 7th Ave. in New York City.
About Maria Prinz
Hailed as “brilliant” and “deeply sensitive” by Das Orchester Magazine, pianist Maria Prinz is widely in demand as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. Ms. Prinz has performed with leading orchestras throughout Europe, including several performances with the Vienna Philharmonic, collaborating with renowned conductors Sir Neville Marriner, Seiji Ozawa and Riccardo Muti at the Salzburg Festival.
As a recitalist, Ms. Prinz has concertized in the United States, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and most European countries. She has performed at leading venues and festivals around the world, including the Salzburg Festival, Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo (Japan) and in Vienna’s Musikverein and Konzerthaus, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Barbican Centre in London and in Tokyo’s Bunka Kaikan.
Her chamber music collaborations include numerous performances with members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, international artists, such as Andrew Marriner, Patrick Gallois, Philippe Pierlot and world- famous singers Ludovic Tézier, Krassimira Stoyanova and Matthias Goerne.
The highlights of the season 2018/2019 are a song recital with baritone Ludovic Tézier at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, a chamber music recital with Céline Moinet and Sophie Dartigalongue at Vienna's Musikverein and a piano recital at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York.
Maria Prinz recorded Haydn and Mozart piano concertos with the Sofia Symphony Orchestra, Brahms Sonatas with clarinetist Alfred Prinz, a Chandos CD “The 20th Century Concerto Grosso” with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields under Sir Neville Marriner, as well as Mozart Violin sonatas and Beethoven Variations Op. 105 and Op. 107 with flutist Patrick Gallois and Puccini-complete songs with Krassimira Stoyanova for Naxos. A new Naxos CD with songs by Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Rachmaninov with mezzo-soprano Margarita Gritskova will be released in March 2019.
Maria Prinz was born in Sofia, Bulgaria into a musical family. Her father is the famous Bulgarian conductor and composer Konstantin Iliev. She studied at the Music University “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin with Rudolf Dunckel, in Vienna with Jörg Demus and in Paris with Yvonne Lefébure. In addition to her performing career, Ms. Prinz has taught at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna since 1987.
The Program
Mozart: Sonata No. 13 in B-flat Major, K.333
Beethoven: Sonata No. 26 in E-flat Major, Op. 81a, “Les Adieux”
Schubert: Sonata in A Major, D. 664
Strauss: Overture to Die Fledermaus
Contact: Norman Dunfee
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