Murray Perahia Piano Recital
Date & Time:： 19:30:00 16 October 2008
     Venue        : Forbidden City Concert Hall
Price( RMB )  :100、380、580、780、980VIP

 Murray Perahia Piano Recital
      JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Partita no 2 (TBD)
      LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Sonata in F minor "Appassionata", op 57 (TBD)
      FRYDERYK CHOPIN Ballade in A flat major，Op.47 / Ballade in F minor, Op.52
      3 Mazurkas
      1 Nocturne
      3 Etudes
Murray Perahia, piano

Murray Perahia 

Murray Perahia  is an American concert pianist. He is also a respected conductor. His recordings are characterized by a consistent quality of sound, technique and interpretation and a careful attention to dynamic and stylistic details.
Career
Perahia was born in New York City of Sephardic origin, and began playing the piano at four but he started practicing seriously only at the age of fifteen. At seventeen, he attended Mannes College, where he studied keyboard, conducting, and composition with his teacher and mentor Mieczys┅aw Horszowski. During the summer, he also attended Marlboro, where he studied with Rudolf Serkin, and Pablo Casals, amongst others.
In 1972, he was the first north American to win first prize at the fourth Leeds Piano Competition, helping to cement its reputation for advancing the careers of young pianistic talent. Dr. Fanny Waterman recalls anecdotally (in Wendy Thompson's book Piano Competition: The Story of the Leeds) that Horszowski had telephoned her prior to the competition, announcing that he would enter the winner. Other American contestants had apparently withdrawn their applications upon hearing that Perahia would be competing.
His first major recording project was the complete piano concertos by Mozart, conducted from the keyboard with the English Chamber Orchestra. In the 1980s, he also recorded the complete portfolio of Beethoven piano concerti, with Bernard Haitink and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Injury and later career
In 1990, Perahia suffered a cut to his right thumb, which became septic. He took antibiotics for this condition, but they affected his health. In 1992, his career was threatened by a bone abnormality in his hand causing inflammation requiring several years away from the keyboard, and a series of surgeries. During that time, he says, he found solace through studying the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. After being given the all-clear, he produced in the late nineties a series of award-winning recordings of Bach's keyboard works, most notably a cornerstone rendition of the Goldberg variations. This has caused him to be regarded as a latter-day Bach specialist.
Besides his solo career, he is active in chamber music and appears regularly with the Guarneri and Budapest Quartets. He is also Principal Guest Conductor of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields orchestra, with which he records and performs.
On March 8, 2004, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom made him an honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire.
In early 2005, Perahia's hand problem recurred, prompting him to withdraw from the concert stage on the advice of his doctors. He cancelled several appearances at London's Barbican as well as a ten-city national tour in the United States, but has returned in fine form with recitals in German cities in 2006 and at the Barbican in April 2007. In the autumn of 2007 he completed a triumphant 10 city tour of the United States and conducted master classes in Salt Lake City. New recordings of Bach and Beethoven are expected in early 2008.
Perahia resides in London. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Music, London and in 2007 he was elected to an Honorary Fellowship of Jesus College, Cambridge.