October 7th, 2006 at 7:30 p.m.
Steinway Hall
109 West 57th Street, New York
For tickets please call: 212-370-3006
Bojan Gorisek and Milko Lazar are one of the rare piano duos in Europe, performing almost exclusively newly composed music for two pianos. As a result of their numerous performances throughout Europe in 2005 and their very successful performances in New York (Merkin Concert Hall, Hungarian Cultural Center) and Washington (Kennedy Center) earlier this year, the Consulate General of the Republic of Slovenia in New York has invited them to participate at the European Dream Festival. The European Dream Festival, which opened on September 19, presents leading creative voices and cutting-edge artistic visions in performing arts, film, and literature from 23 European countries at Prime New York venues. (www.europeandream.us).
At Steinway Hall, Bojan Gorisek and Milko Lazar will perform music written by Milko Lazar, whose music is a crossover between contemporary chamber music, improvisation and jazz and is often compared to the Kronos Quartet. The performance will also include a rare adaptation of Maurice Ravel's Bolero.
Both musicians are among the most outstanding musicians from Slovenia where they were recently awarded the most prestigious national award for culture.
Milko Lazar is a composer, pianist, harpsichordist, keyboardist and saxophonist and is working in the fields of classical and jazz music. Through his jazz career, he performed with many of his own groups (Quatebriga, Stefbet Rifi, Milko Lazar Quartet) and other well known jazz musicians like Maria Schneider, Herb Pomeroy, Peter Herbolzheimer, and Mathias Ruegg. Milko Lazar's recent classical compositions have already been performed with many international ensembles all over Europe, and in such prestigious U.S. venues as Carnegie Hall in New York. Among the conductors of his orchestral works have been Walter Proost, David de Villiers, Olari Elts, George Pehlivanian and Marko Letonja. He has recorded over 40 LPs and CDs with different groups and more then 10 solo projects.
Bojan Goriek is known around the world for recording the complete piano opus of Erik Satie for Blaricum Music Group which was rated among the best recordings ever made. Besides performing all over Europe, he often plays in the United States, Venezuela, Columbia, and China. During his career he has collaborated with Luciano Berio, Vinko Globokar, Jane Manning, Irena Grafenauer, John Edward Kelly, David Harman, Walter Proost, and others. In collaboration with Blaricum Music Group Bojan Goriek also recorded 4 CDs of music by George Crumb, and the piano sonata “Concord" of Charles Ives. For various record companies in Slovenia he recorded the complete piano opuses of Marij Kogoj, Aldo Kumar, and Milko Lazar.
Concert info and tickets:
Clara Drew, E-mail: [email protected], Telephone: 212-370-3006
For more information contact All About Jazz.
