{"id":797,"date":"2015-11-30T07:27:53","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T07:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/?page_id=797"},"modified":"2023-02-26T00:26:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T05:26:21","slug":"salon-2015-11-29-david-kalhous","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/?page_id=797","title":{"rendered":"Salon 2015-11-29 David Kalhous"},"content":{"rendered":"

On November 29, 2015:<\/h3>\n

The “elegant musicianship, brilliant pianism, probing intelligence, and adventurous programming” of<\/h2>\n

Pianist David Kalhous<\/h1>\n

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PROGRAM:<\/h3>\n

Four Mazurkas, Op. 17                                              Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
\nVivo e resoluto
\nLento, ma non troppo
\nLegato assai
\nLento, ma non troppo
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Hindyish (2012)                                                        Ji\u0159\u00ed Kade\u0159\u00e1bek (1978)
\ncommissioned by David Kalhous<\/em><\/p>\n

Sonata No. 5, Op. 53                                                 Alexander Scrjabin (1872-1915)<\/p>\n

Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24      Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)<\/p>\n

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Pianist David Kalhous<\/strong> is increasingly gaining recognition and critical acclaim in Europe and the United States for his elegant musicianship, brilliant pianism, probing intelligence, and adventurous programming. With wide-ranging solo, chamber and concerto repertoire spanning three centuries, he is equally at home with music of Scarlatti and Bach, Beethoven and Chopin, and Ligeti and Feldman.<\/p>\n

David Kalhous (1975) began his professional studies at the Prague Conservatory as a student of Jaroslav \u010cerm\u00e1k. His attended such institutions as Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, the Academy of Arts in Prague, the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel-Aviv University, Yale University, and Northwestern University, and studied with Paul Badura Skoda, Emil Leichner, Victor Derevianko, David Northington, Peter Frankl, and Ursula Oppens. He also worked with Jerome Lowenthal at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, and with Paul Lewis at the Gilmore Keyboard Festival as a Gilmore Fellow.  David Kalhous holds a Doctor of Music degree from Northwestern University, where he worked with Ursula Oppens and completed a dissertation on the piano music of Leo\u0161 Jan\u00e1\u010dek.<\/p>\n

David Kalhous is currently Assistant Professor of Piano at Florida State University College of Music.<\/p>\n

David Kalhous’ debut solo recital at the Prague Spring Festival received critical acclaim, and he has been invited to present solo recitals at Symphony Space and Bargemusic in New York City; PianoForte Foundation and WFMT radio station in Chicago; Prague Symphony Orchestra’s World Piano Literature recital series, Czech Philharmonic Chamber Music Society, Czech Radio’s Studio Live Concert Series, and Konvergence New Music Series in Prague, to name a few. He also recently performed at Northwestern University, Yale University, University of Chicago, Eastman School of Music, and UNCSA, among others.
\nRecent collaborations with orchestra include a performance of Brahms’ D Minor concerto with the North Bohemia Symphony Orchestra, Ligeti\u2019s Piano Concerto with the Florida State University Symphony Orchestra, Mendelssohn\u2019s Double Concerto for Violin and Piano with the Plze\u0148 Philharmonic Orchestra, and Beethoven’s Third and Fifth Piano Concerti with the Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra. David Kalhous also appeared as a soloist with the Israel Symphony Orchestra, Prague Philharmonia, Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK, Chamber Philharmonia Pardubice, Moravian Philharmonic, West-Bohemia Symphony Orchestra, and Musici di Praga among others, and has worked with such conductors as Libor Pe\u0161ek, Eli Jaffe, Leo\u0161 Sv\u00e1rovsk\u00fd, Stanislav Vav\u0159\u00ednek and Mari\u00e1n Val\u010duha.<\/p>\n

David Kalhous made various recordings for the Czech Radio and Television, and his performances were broadcast on WFMT Chicago, WUOT, and WFSQ. He was also the author and host of a series of radio programs devoted to music for piano and its interpretation that were produced and broadcast by the radio station Classic FM in Prague. Czech Television’s Channel 2 showed a documentary film about David Kalhous.
\nDavid Kalhous’s interest in 20th century and new music has resulted in close collaboration with many European and American composers who have written works expressly for him. He has performed with and under the auspices of the Northwestern University Contemporary Music Ensemble (Gy\u00f6rgy Ligeti Memorial Concert, Steve Reich Celebration, American premiere of Peter Ablinger’s 6 Linien), FSU New Music Ensemble (John Cage\u2019s Concert for Piano and Orchestra), FSU Chamber Winds (Berg\u2019s Chamber Concerto and Petr Kot\u00edk\u2019s Spontano), Fonema Consort (Sciarrino\u2019s 4th Piano Sonata, Nono\u2019s \u2026sofferte onde serene\u2026, and Gervasoni\u2019s Quattro voci), and TTU New Music Ensemble (Boulez\u2019 D\u00e9rive I, Dutilleux\u2019s Figures de resonances, and Peter E\u00f6tv\u00f6s\u2019s Kosmos). He was the first pianist to perform the first book of Gy\u00f6rgy Ligeti’s piano \u00c9tudes and Morton Feldman’s For Bunita Marcus in Prague. In the upcoming season, he will perform Gy\u00f6rgy Ligeti\u2019s Piano Concerto with FSU Symphony Orchestra. David Kalhous is cooperating on several projects with Konvergence Ensemble in Prague and with Fonema Consort in Chicago. His new solo recording project slated for release in the 2014\/2015 season, \u201cPiano Music from Prague,\u201d will feature newly commissioned pieces by eight leading Czech composers, with performances planned in several European and American cities.<\/p>\n

… Exceptional traits distinguished the recital of the young pianist David Kalhous. We were witnesses to a continuous and arresting story, uniquely narrated and experienced. David Kalhous is an intelligent musician\u2026 In his performance, the sound of each note and chord is thought out in advance and consequently well communicated to the audience. His playing is technically exquisite, precise, and compelling, and he has the ability to become deeply immersed in the structure of the work\u2026
\nReview of the Prague Spring recital debut at the Prague Academy of Arts in Hudebn\u00ed rozhledy (The Music Review), Prague, July 2006<\/p>\n

… His take on the three parts of Jan\u00e1\u010dek’s In The Mists was masterful, intense, passionate and spot-on … From the only slightly restrained macabre of the opening Andante, through the eerie cascades of the Andantino and then the\u2026 suspenseful Presto, Kalhous illuminated it with every veiled shade of menace he could conjure…
\n(from a review of a recital at Bargemusic, Brooklyn in Lucid Culture, New York, February 2009)<\/p>\n

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On November 29, 2015: The “elegant musicianship, brilliant pianism, probing intelligence, and adventurous programming” of Pianist David Kalhous PROGRAM: Four Mazurkas, Op. 17                                              Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) Vivo e resoluto Lento, ma non troppo Legato assai Lento, ma non troppo Hindyish (2012)                                                        Ji\u0159\u00ed Kade\u0159\u00e1bek (1978) commissioned by David Kalhous Sonata No. 5, Op. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5857,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-797","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/797\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}