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Chopin Project Concert Sunday March 4, 2018
Recital 2 -- Chopin Project Pianist, Renana Gutman in Solo Performance of Works by Chopin, Bach, Debussy, Schulhoff, and more.
World-renowned pianist, Renana Gutman in a solo recital of works by Chopin, Mozart, Schubert, and Schumann
Praised by the New York Times for her passionate and insightful playing, Renana Gutman has performed across four continents as an orchestral soloist, recitalist, and collaborative artist. She played at venues like The Louvre Museum, Grenoble Museum, (France), Carnegie Recital Hall, Peoples Symphony Concerts, Merkin Hall (New York), St. Petersburgs Philharmonia (Russia), Stresa Music Festival (Italy), Ravinia Rising Stars (Chicago), Jordan Hall, Gardner Museum (Boston), Herbst Theatre (St. Francisco), Menuhin Hall (UK), UNISA (South Africa), Marlboro (VT), and Washington National Gallery and Freer Gallery. Her performances are heard frequently on WQXR Young Artists Showcase, NY, WFMT Dame Myra Hess, Chicago, and MPR Performances Today, MN.
Renana was one of four young pianists selected by the renowned Leon Fleisher to participate in his workshop on Beethoven piano sonatas hosted by Carnegie Hall, where she presented performances of Hammerklavier and Appassionata to critical acclaim. Her recording of Chopin etudes op.25 will be released in 2017 by The Chopin Project. A top prize winner at Los Angeles Liszt competition, International Keyboard Festival in New York, and Tel-Hai Internationl Master Classes, she performed concerti like Brahms 2nd, Rachmaninoff-Paganini Variations, and Beethovens Emperor with the Jerusalem Symphony, Haifa Symphony, Belgian I Fiamminghi, Mannes College Orchestra. Her festival appearances include Marlboro and Ravinia, where she collaborated with prominent musicians like pianist Richard Goode, clarinetist Anthony McGill and members of the Guarneri string quartet.
High in demand as a chamber musician, Renana toured with Musicians from Marlboro, and serves regularly as the collaborative pianist of Steans Institute at Ravinia Festival, where she performs chamber music and lieder extensively. In last seasons she performed chamber music with violist Kim Kashkashian, and violinist Miriam Fried. Frequent duo partners are violinists Alexi Kenney, InMo Yang, Yoojin Jang and Tessa Lark. Renana premiered newly commissioned music by Paul Schoenfield, and Tamar Muskal, among others. As a member of Echoes of Hope project, she is also dedicated to performing obscure pieces by Jewish composers who perished in the Holocaust; Schulhoff, Ullmann, to name a few. A former founder of the piano trio Terzetto, Renana won first Prize at the Yellow Springs Chamber Music Competition, Ohio, and performed Beethoven Triple Concerto with Lansing Symphony. The trio was featured at Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, the Banff Center, Canada, Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival, North Carolina and Saugatuck Music Festival, Michigan.
From 2008-2010, Renana had been on the piano faculty of the Yehudi Menuhin Music School in the UK, alongside her mentor, prof. Marcel Baudet. She currently teaches at 92nd Street Y, and Bard College Preparatory in NY. A native of Israel, Renana started playing at the age of six, and soon after, garnered multiple awards and honors. She received scholarships from the America Israel Cultural Foundation, and the Jewish Foundation for the Education of Women. Her teachers were pianists Natasha Tadson and Victor Derevianko in Israel, and Richard Goode at Mannes College of Music in New York, where she completed her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees. Her musicianship teacher was the established Israeli composer Arie Shapira.
Renana became an American citizen in 2015 and makes her home in NYC. She also pursues her passion for Argentinian Tango, languages, and poetry.
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LocationUnitarian Universalist Church of Sarasota (View)
3975 Fruitville Road
Sarasota, FL 34232
United States
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