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.
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