Jeremy Johnson
College of Arts & Media
The Music and Entertainment Industry Studies program at the University of Colorado Denver's (UCDHSC) College of Arts & Media presents the Three B's Concert featuring Zoe Erisman at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 11, in the Recital Hall of the Kenneth King Academic and Performing Arts Center on the Downtown Denver Campus, 855 Lawrence Way.
Join UCDHSC Faculty Member and concert pianist Erisman in a concert celebrating the music of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms, otherwise known as the Three B's. The program will include the Prelude and Fugue in G Major by J.S. Bach, the Tempest Sonata, Op. 31, No. 2 in D Minor by Beethoven, and the five-movement Third Sonata in F Minor by Brahms.
These composers contributed immensely to the repertoire of Austro-German music with each one's unique writing style. Bach from the Baroque period, Beethoven from the Classical period, and Brahms from the Romantic era show the change and development in the musical style over 150 years.
Erisman is a professor at the Downtown Denver Campus. Her performing career has included two European tours, two tours in China, and one tour to Russia and she has performed with Pierre Fournier, Mischa Mischakoff, and Josef Gingold, and The DENVER DUO, her violin and piano duo with concertmaster Jesse Ceci. Her recording Zoe Erisman, Pianist Plays Shostakovich was released in Japan, Israel, Europe and the United States. In addition to performing, Erisman is also an accomplished composer.
Her Quintet for Bassoon and String Quartet was performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and a retrospective of all of her compositions was performed by the Kunming Symphony in China. She performed a solo concert at the Moscow Conservatory as well as a return engagement in China. Italian pianist Giovanni Battel will premiere her latest piano work, Age of Rage April 25 in the King Center Concert Hall on the Auraria Campus. Battel is director of the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory, Venice, Italy.
Tickets can be obtained by calling 303-556-2296. Parking in the Tivoli Parking Lot at Auraria Parkway and 9th St. is free for this event with a valid ticket stub. For more information on the UCDHSC College of Arts & Media and the 2004-2005 cultural arts season, call 303-352-3500 or go to: www.cudenver.edu/cam/ events.