A tasting of French and Californian music with flavors from Baroque to Contemporary. Master of the keyboard, Yevgeniy Milyavskiy one of the best pianists of his generation in California, brings us works by Couperin, Rameau, Debussy, Eglin, and da Silva.
Title: Paris Judgement From the Piano, with Yevgeniy Milyavskiy
Date: Saturday, April 28th, 2012
Time: 7 PM
Venue: The Yellow House (see address in e-ticket)
Tickets: https://yellowhouseconcerts.ticketleap.com/
Yevgeniy Milyavskiy
Born in Mozyr, Belarus, Yevgeniy Milyavskiy began studying piano with his parents at the age of 3. At Age 6, he began formal studies with the Director of the Lycee for Gifted Children, Vladimir Kuzmenko, in the capital of Belarus- Minsk. His debuted with the Belarus Chamber Orchesrta at age 8 in Minsk. After immigrating to the United States in 1994, Yevgeniy studied under a full scholarship at the Southern California Conservatory of Music, with Grant Horrocks. In 1998, he began his studies with the world renowned concert pianist, Professor Daniel Pollack, continuing to receive a B.M. and M.M. in Piano Performance in his studio, at the USC Thornton School of Music. Yevgeniy is a winner of numerous awards and competitions, including the 2002 Spotlight Awards at the Los Angeles Music Center, the 2003 NFAA competition in Miami, the 2005 Southern Missouri International Piano Competition, The 2007 Los Angeles International Franz Liszt Competition, and the 2008 Jose Iturbi international Piano Competition. He has received numerous prizes from the Leni Fe Bland Foundation Competition in Santa Barbara, the Young Musicians Foundation, Los Angeles, and the YAPMF Music Festival, Palos Verdes. Yevgeniy is a Liberace Scholar, and a recipient of the ASCAP Lieber & Stoller Award. He has performed in numerous solo, chamber, and orchestra performances nationally and overseas, including Maestro Boris Brott with the New West Symphony, in London at Covent Garden, at the Franz Liszt Museum and Conservatory in Budapest, Hungary, in Germany, Israel, and Belarus. Yevgeniy was a fellow to numerous music festivals, including the Chamber Symposium in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he performed on Radio Suisse Romande, the International Chopin Piano Symposium- Los Angeles, the Aspen Summer Music Festival, AIMS in Graz piano/vocal festival in Austria, and the 2006 Tanglewood Music Center Festival. In 2008, Yevgeniy performed at the Spoleto Music Festival. Yevgeniy is in high demand as a solo and collaborative artist- with recent performances of the world premiere of Eric Zeisl's Biblical Ballet Jacob and Rachel, and Wladyslaw Szpilman's Concertino with Maestra Noreen Green and the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony at the Ford Amphitheatre, televised on LA TV Channel 36. Yevgeniy has recently won the Grand Prix at the 2011 ISAM Music Festival and Competition in Baden-Wurtemberg, Germany and will return in 2012 for a tour of concerts in the region.
