Tutunov Piano Series presents: Ilya Shmukler

The Tutunov Piano Series presents: Ilya Shmukler in concert on Friday, March 7th at 7:30pm at the SOU Music Recital Hall. Livestream available: $35/household. Tickets are $35/reserved seating, $30 seniors and are available at https://sou.universitytickets.com PROGRAM J. S. Bach — Toccata in D major, BWV 912 F. Schubert — Sonata in A major, D. 664 (Op. posth. 120) I. Allegro moderato II. Andante III. Allegro F. Liszt — “Funérailles” from “Harmonies poétiques et religieuses”, S. 173 No.7 INTERMISSION C. Debussy — “Images”, book I, L. 110 I. “Reflets dans l’eau” II. “Hommage à Rameau” III. “Mouvement” M. Mussorgsky — “Pictures at an Exhibition” "Promenade" "The Gnome" “Promenade" "The Old Castle" “Promenade" "Tuileries (Children's Quarrel after Games)" "Bydlo" "Promenade" "Ballet of Unhatched Chicks" "Samuel" Goldenberg and "Schmuÿle" "Limoges. The Market (The Great News)" "Catacombs (Roman Tomb)" "With the Dead in a Dead Language" "The Hut on Hen's Legs (Baba Yaga)" "The Great Gate of Kiev” ABOUT THE ARTIST: “Shmukler is a volcano”; “the name of Ilya Shmukler should be remembered” is how the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung described this pianist after his triumph at the Concours Géza Anda 2024 in Zurich, Switzerland, where he won four major awards in addition to the First Prize. When he was 3, Ilya’s mother found him jumping on the bed and singing Robertino Loreti’s “Jamaica” beautifully. It was important to his parents, however, to raise their boy as a well-rounded person, so his early years were also spent with school, table tennis, and ballroom dancing before focusing on music. Since then, Ilya Shmukler made solo appearances in Europe and North America, and performed with such artists as Mikhail Pletnev, Paavo Järvi, Marin Alsop, Nicholas McGegan, Junichi Hirokami, Anne-Marie McDermott, Anton Nel and David Radzynski. Collaborations include the Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich, Musikkollegium Winterthur, the Mariinsky, Fort Worth Symphony, Sendai Philharmonic, Kansas City Chamber, Bayer-Symphoniker, and New Music Orchestras. To have become a finalist and the recipient of the award for the “Best Performance of a Mozart Concerto” at the 2022 Cliburn Competition is a milestone in his career, as is his New York debut as a winner of the Carnegie Weill Recital Hall Debut Audition in 2022. An alumnus of the Moscow State Conservatoire under the guidance of Elena Kuznetsova and Sergey Kuznetsov, Ilya continues his studies at Park University (USA) with Stanislav Ioudenitch.