SUNDAY, JUNE 28TH! 4 pm
St. Mark's Episcopal Church Now Playing Newport Music Series
44 Second St.
Tickets:$10 available at www.nowplayingnewport.com/season.html
After returning from a two week concert your in Korea, well known Vermont Pianist Michael Arnowitt will perform for the Now Playing Newport Music Series at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 44 Second Street, Newport. He will present a Concert of the last three Beethoven piano sonatas. The program is on Sunday, June 28th beginning at 4 pm and will be followed by a reception for the artist. Tickets are $10 and are available in advance, online at www.nowplayingnewport.com or by calling the church office at 802-334-7365.
In 1989 Michael Arnowitt began his novel, 26-year long presentation of the complete 32 Beethoven piano sonatas, matching up his age as he performs
the various sonatas with Beethoven's age as Beethoven composed them. The eight concerts in the project, spaced out over 26 years, thereby become a study in the psychology of aging and development. This project will culminate in 2015 with his final concert in the series, a program of Beethoven's last three piano sonatas.
Michael Arnowitt is one of the most creative and imaginative musicians of today. His life and music is the subject of a documentary film, "Beyond 88 Keys" (2004). The documentary, filmed in both the United States and Europe, has been broadcast on public television in Vermont and Maine and has been shown at a variety of film festivals and venues including the Rode Pomp, an arts center in Gent, Belgium and the Anthology, a theater in New York City's East Village.
Michael Arnowitt has toured Europe on seven different occasions, performing in France, Belgium, Germany, Holland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Russia. His concert activities for the spring of 2015 include performances in Korea. Michael Arnowitt has performed twice as piano soloist with the
Boston Symphony Orchestra, playing piano concertos of Bach and Beethoven;
he has also appeared as soloist with the Kiev Chamber Orchestra under Roman Kofman, the Savannah Symphony Orchestra, and others.
The Washington Post said of a special piano concert Michael Arnowitt performed at the National Gallery of Art, "A beautifully thought-out program ... He played with an exquisite sense of touch, color and musical imagination."