Liszt: Fountains of the Villa d'Este - Kenneth Grigg

Recorded live at the Soiree Musicale International Piano Series
May 4, 2001 -- Shiloh Church
(Taken from a cassette recording of a radio re-broadcast)

A close friend I believe to be the best living, performing "old-style" pianist.

Visit his website at: www.kennethgrigg.com

Bio:
Kenneth Grigg has concertized throughout the United States, Canada, and Italy; he attended the North Carolina School of the Arts, was a National Merit Scholar at Oberlin College from which he received bachelor's degrees in piano and English, and holds a master's degree in piano from the University of Texas.

Mr. Grigg is active as recitalist, coach, teacher, chamber musician, collaborative pianist, and clinician; he is a member of the duo Senza Misura (with Catherine LeGrand).

Mr. Grigg has toured with the Oberlin Choir, the Arius Chamber Players, the Virginia Opera, Eurythmy, and has prepared projects ranging from Peter Brook's Marat/Sade (the Governor's School of North Carolina) to Arnold Schoenberg's Moses und Aron (Opera de Lyon).

His traveling repertoire ranges from the Bach Overture in the French Manner through the Beethoven "Kreutzer" Sonata, Chopin B minor Sonata, Ravel Gaspard de la Nuit, and Jolivet Chant de Linos.

Recent engagements have included:
• Indiana University (Bloomington)
• Eastman School of Music (Rochester)
• University of Washington (Seattle)

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[sevcik2]

Beautifully performed!

Bravo!

[2ndviolinist]

@sevcik2 He's a great pianist no matter what decade.

[pianopera]

Very beautiful! I feel he could bring out the left hand melody more at various places... I don't like the soft ending, to me it seems not appropriate. But it is certainly evocative and tasteful playing, technically on a high level!