Event

Piano Recital

Pianist Dr. Oliver Markson will bring to the audience a program of solo piano music, blending virtuosity with profound musicianship.

Oliver Markson:
With engagements to date in Japan, China, Mexico, Brazil, Europe, Thailand and the United States, Oliver Markson is establishing himself internationally as a concert pianist, composer and teacher.

Recent performances include the Tchaikovsky 1st Concerto, Grieg Concerto and Beethoven Triple Concerto at Blas Galindo Hall, Mexico City; solo recitals at Elebash Recital Hall, New York; a series of piano recitals in the Shanghai Concert Hall, China; a series of vocal recitals with sopranos Monica Harte and Nina Berman; and violin/piano recitals with Mayumi Fujikawa in England and Japan, which have led to two CD releases under the Japanese label Mittenwald from 2009 and 2011. Since 2013, he has been one half of a piano duo team with pianist Judy Pang. As of 2020, they have together launched the "Tree of Light Concert Series" in Long Island, New York.

As a composer, Oliver Markson has blended together his Japanese and European family roots combining elements of Japanese traditional music with French impressionism. Most recent compositions include Haiku - a set of character pieces for piano deriving their inspiration from eight poems of Matsuo Basho, Firebird - a piano work based on the Manga (Japanese comics) of the same name by Tezuka Osamu, Auld Lang Syne - an alternative version of the famous Scottish song for SATB choir, "Impressions" a song cycle on poems of Oscar Wilde, the violin and piano work "Evocation", "Hymn for String Orchestra", and "Visions" for piano.