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Presented by Legato Arts
Amir Farid, Piano
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
7 PM
Weill Recital Hall
Amir Farid by Jasmine Moseley
Amir Farid, winner of the 2006 Australian National Piano Award, is a US born Iranian-Australian who resides in both New York City and Melbourne, Australia. The performance includes Schubert’s Sonata in B-flat Major, D. 960 as well as the US Premiere of Ice Man by Australian composer Stuart Greenbaum, which is a musical representation of the experience of Aussie adventurer James Scott who was stranded in the Himalayan mountains for 43 days and somehow survived.
Performers
Amir Farid, Piano
Program
MOZART Adagio in B Minor, K. 540
STUART GREENBAUM Ice Man (US Premiere)
PROKOFIEV Toccata in D Minor, Op. 11
SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in B-flat Major, D. 960
ROBERT PATERSON Joy Ride