From: Slava Senyshyn <senyshyn@sfu.ca>
Date: November 11, 2006 10:41:59 AM PST (CA)
Subject: Liszt Piano Recital: Slava Senyshyn and Alan Kogosowski
Dear All,
I am very pleased to announce an all Liszt joint piano recital with the great and world renowned pianist Alan
Kogosowski on Saturday, January 27th, 2007 at 7:30 PM at the Massey Theatre. As you will see below in this
email, he has a huge international career and happens to be a great favourite of the Royal Family since the late Princess
Diana befriended him and the late Pope John Paul for his masterful playing of Chopin. I feel very honoured that he has
chosen me to pair up with him for this particular all Liszt recital. (We will also be playing a two piano recital at the Chan
Centre for the Performing Arts, tentatively scheduled for Sunday, January 27, 2008. This recital will feature the works of
Mozart, Schubert and Rachmaninoff. I am also looking forward to playing a joint recital with my wife, Dr. Susan
O'Neill-Senyshyn, flautist, at the Chan Centre, tentatively scheduled for Sunday, April 6th, 2008).
The first joint recital on Saturday, January 27th, 2007 at 7:30 PM at the Massey Theatre (735 Eighth Avenue, New
Westminster, BC. will be played in a hall that was built in 1949. It was the former home of the Vancouver Symphony
Orchestra before it moved to the Orpheum. The acoustics are excellent. This theatre is very closely located to the
Skytrain (Expo Line Skytrain To New Westminster Station at Columbia).
Tickets will be sold by Ticketmaster (TicketWeb Canada, a division of Ticketmaster Canada Ltd. ("TicketWeb") for General
Admission: $25.00 and $20.00 (Seniors and Students) and the area adjacent to the Dean's Office in the Faculty of
Education. I am most grateful that Alana Nordstrand and Devi Pabla will be handling the sale of a limited number of
tickets (200). They have been very kind! Alan and I do not want to impose more on their time than is necessary. Tickets
are also available through http://www.TicketWeb.ca as of Monday, November 13th, 2006. They may also be
purchased over the phone at 888-222-6608.
Please note that proceeds from the concert will cover costs and fund other concerts (already mentioned) at the Chan
Centre for the Performing Arts and possibly one other Benefit Concert to be announced at a later time and to be held at
the Orpheum later in the next year. For more information about our current concert please see below:
Saturday, January 27th, 2007 at 7:30 PM at the Massey Theatre
A Liszt Recital
Two Sides of the Multi-Faceted Franz Liszt
Pianist: Yaroslav Senyshyn
Original Compositions by Franz Liszt:
Étude d'Exécution Transcendante, No. 11 ("Harmonies du Soir")
Annees de Pelerinage: Seconde Annee: Italie
Sur le 104e Sonnet de Petrarque
Annees de Pelerinage : Premiere Annee - Suisse
Chapelle de Guillaume Tell
Au Lac de Wallenstadt
Orage
Vallee d'Obermann
Intermission
Pianist: Alan Kogosowski
Operatic Transcriptions by Franz Liszt:
Reminiscences of Lucia di Lammermoor (1840)
Miserere from Il Trovatore (1860)
Reminiscences of Norma (1843)
Rigoletto Paraphrase (1860)
Waltz from Faust (1860)
Liebestod - Tristan and Isolde (Wagner, 1865) Liszt /Kogosowski
Yaroslav Senyshyn was born in Toronto of Ukrainian parentage. His studies began on the piano with the great
Antonina Yaroshevich of the Kiev Conservatory. He studied with Damiana Bratuz, Howard Munn, Clifford von Kuster,
Katherine Wolpe and Pierre Souverain. A recipient of numerous scholarships and awards, he holds a Bachelor and
Master of Music in Performance degrees from the University of Western Ontario and the University of Toronto
respectively. As well, he completed a Bachelor of Education degree at the Faculty of Education, University of Toronto
and a Doctorate in Philosophy of Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.
Yaroslav Senyshyn's appearances have won him acclaim in many major concert halls throughout the world including
New York's Carnegie Recital Hall, Toronto's St. Lawrence Centre and Massey Hall and the Bolshoi Hall at the Moscow
Conservatory. Most recently he has performed at Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Simon Fraser University (a
scholarship benefit performance) at the SFU Theatre and was invited to give a special recital in Toronto to celebrate the
joining of OISE and the University of Toronto. He has been featured in a Georgetown University radio broadcast in
Washington D.C. on Canadian performers including Glenn Gould, Louis Lortie and Anton Kuerti. While playing at the
John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., he appeared in the "Critic's Choice" column of the Washington Post and
after his debut there was referred to as a pianist of "enormous power" and "sophisticated finger work". (The
Washington Post) For other concert reviews and selected excerpts of Yaroslav Senyshyn's playing please
seehttp://www.educ.sfu.ca/fri/Senyshyn/ and then choose the link entitled "Pianistic Highlights, Reviews,
Upcoming Concerts, and Sample Clips of Senyshyn's Recitals / CDs".
Senyshyn is an Associate Professor of philosophy of music aesthetics and moral education at
Simon Fraser University's Faculty of Education. As well he has published extensively in
international and national journals such as the Philosophy of Music Education Review, MusicaRealta, Interchange, the Journal of Educational Thought, Educational Leadership, the
Canadian Journal of Education, and other publications. He is Past President of the Simon Fraser
University Faculty Association and a member-at-large on the national Executive of CAUT
(Canadian Association of University Teachers). His performances have won him acclaim in
major concert halls throughout the world.
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Alan Kogosowski's career has been one of creative surprises. Not content to be one of the foremost pianists of his
generation, he has spread his talents richly over many areas related to the great music repertoire he so ably commands.
Beginning in the mid-1980s, Kogosowski conceived and presented the prestigious concert series Schubertiades at
Sotheby's in London for ten years. A recreation of the 19th century style of musical presentation, where artists and
performers gathered in glamorous convivial surroundings and played their works in mixed combinations for friends and
acquaintances, these concerts at Sotheby's soon acquired a cult following. Members of the Royal Family often attended,
and the opportunity of viewing the latest art collections added an extra dimension of interest to the evenings. CD
recordings, under the label Music From Sotheby's, were issued and became highly popular.
Moving to America, Kogosowski restored and orchestrated two major works for piano and orchestra, by Rachmaninoff
and Chopin respectively. Both were premiered by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under Maestro Neeme Järvi and
broadcast nationally. The CD recording of the Rachmaninoff Concerto Élégiaque, went 'straight to the top of our list,'
said The American Record Guide.
These great additions to the concert repertoire were followed by a 6-part TV series on the life of Frederic Chopin,
conceived, written and produced, as well as performed, by Kogosowski. This series was first broadcast in New York in
2003, and hailed by the New York Times as 'outstanding.' The series is now available as a double-DVD set.
Next came two important books - Genius of the Piano - Etude!, a comprehensive account of the life of Chopin as well
as the history and the art of piano playing, and How to Prevent RSI - a pianist's perspective for everyone" (available
as e-books at http://www.kogosowski.com/a/index.php . You will also find excerpts of his
playing www.kogosowski.com).
Back in his home town of Melbourne, Kogosowski encountered a young Chinese soprano who reminded him of his
adored Maria Callas, and they gave a joint recital juxtaposing great arias with operatic fantasies for piano by Franz Liszt.
This concert was broadcast to great acclaim, inspiring a magnificent new CD set, Kogosowski and Xiao Wang at the
Opera. The combination of spectacular piano fantasies by Liszt with key arias from the operas sung by an extraordinary
young artist is a programming concept Liszt himself would surely have approved.
Likewise, Kogosowski hopes that Sergei Rachmaninoff and Frederic Chopin would also have approved of the way in
which he has brought new life to two great and important, but little known, compositions in their canon.
From New Jersey, Kogosowski goes to Los Angeles to perform in a new play about Chopin and George Sand by actress
and writer Diana Douglas (mother of Michael).
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To see a virtual tour of Massey Theatre, please visit www.seevirtual360.com/2774
For a detailed seating plan, please visit www.seatadvisor.com/search
Main Entrance - 735 Eighth Avenue, New Westminster, BC
Just east of the 8th Avenue & 8th Street intersection. Watch for large reader board at street side & Massey Theatre
awning above main entrance doors.
Parking
Free parking is available on school grounds after 3:30pm Monday to Friday and all-day on weekends. Enter parking lot
on 8th Avenue just east of 8th & 8th intersection. Driveway is between theatre & Moody Park Arena.
Massey Theatre can be easily accessed from a variety of routes
Queensborough Bridge (from Highway 99, Alex Fraser Bridge or Richmond)
Veer right off Queensborough Bridge onto New Westminster/6th Avenue exit. Veer left onto 6th Avenue. Follow 6th
Avenue to 8th Street. Turn Left onto 8th Street. Turn right at 8th Avenue.
Patullo Bridge (From Surrey)
Straight onto McBride Blvd. from bridge. Follow McBride to 8th Avenue. Turn left onto 8th Avenue.
Port Mann Bridge - Highway 1 (From Surrey & the Fraser Valley)
Freeway to Brunette Avenue North (second Brunette Exit) Follow Brunette to Braid Street (first light). Turn right onto
Braid Follow Braid as it becomes 8th Avenue.
Highway 1 - Canada Way (from Vancouver)
Exit at Canada Way (exit 33). Turn left onto Canada Way. Follow Canada Way as it becomes 8th Street. Turn left onto
8th Avenue.
Lougheed Highway
Turn left (south) onto North Road. Right onto Braid Street. Follow Braid as it becomes 8th Avenue.
Via Skytrain
Take the Expo Line Skytrain To New Westminster Station at Columbia and 8th St. Take bus number 123 Brentwood
Station up 8th St. to 8th Ave.
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