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Music Department to host renown pianist

By Jennifer Palmberg
The Collegian

Van Cliburn International Piano Competition 2005 gold medalist Alexander Kobrin is coming to Fresno to perform Sunday, Oct. 9 as part of the 34th season Philip Lorenz Memorial Keyboard Concerts.

Kobrin is a native-born Russian pianist whose father was a piano instructor. He began taking lessons from his father at the age of five and has been improving and winning awards ever since.

Kobrin began touring all over the world after winning first prize in the 1999 Busoni Competition and winning top prizes in 2000 Chopin and 2003 Hamamatsu Competitions. But he didn’t begin touring in the United States until 2005 after his award winning Van Cliburn Competition performance was recorded and released on compact disc.

Geoff Brown, a reporter for The Times in London said, “The emotional range of Kobrin’s Mozart was dramatically matched by his boldly shaped Rachmaninov Paganini variations: darkly muscular one minute, achingly lyrial the next. His solo recital offered further indications of a blazing talent,” in a review of Kobrin’s Van Cliburn Competition performance.

Kobrin will perform at Fresno State’s Concert Hall in the East Music Building this Sunday at 3 p.m.

Cost for the event is $12.50 general, $7 for seniors and $5 for students. Free parking will be available in Lot C.


	October 7, 2005 California State University, Fresno