Hailed as ”one of the last pianists in the grand Romantic tradition of Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and Rubinstein”, world-acclaimed pianist Barbara Nissman makes her Lincoln Hall debut on Sunday, March 24 at 2 PM bringing her masterful, virtuosic bravura to the Steinway in a program of rapturous Romantic music.
Her international career was personally launched by Eugene Ormandy who engaged her as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. She has performed with leading orchestras in Europe and America, including the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the St. Louis Symphony, the National Symphony and the Cleveland Orchestra, working with some of the major conductors of our time including Riccardo Muti, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and Leonard Slatkin.
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to witness this astounding artist! Acclaimed for her unparalleled program commentary in recitals, master classes, and her BBC television series, Barbara Nissman will bring to life the music and personalities of the composers – making accessible to her ARCA audience the magic of music. Nissman not only connects the music and its composer, but she connects the composer to the listener, touching souls in the process.
Adults $25, ARCA Members $20, Students $5. Buy online at alleghenyriverstone.org or call 724-659-3153 to reserve and pay with cash or check at the door.
It’s no wonder that she has garnered rave reviews: “Sheer bravura, rhapsodic lyricism and classical restraint.” - The London Times; “A performance of stunning power and conviction.” – The Chicago Sun-Times and “A refined combination of delicacy and passion.” – The New York Times
In this chaotic time, Barbara Nissman will bring a musical balm to her Lincoln Hall audience, as she believes that “music is the most direct path to the hearts of the people and necessary for the nurturing of the human spirit.” The Three Oranges Foundation was founded to support her work as “a performer, an interpreter, a teacher and as a human being. Her passion for music inspires others, and music is her ministry.”
Barbara Nissman continues the grand bravura tradition of romantic pianism. Her recordings of Prokofiev, Bartók and Ginastera are considered ”defi nitive,” and she has garnered praise for her series of recordings of nineteenth-century composers. She made history in 1989 by becoming the first pianist to perform the complete piano sonatas of Sergei Prokofiev in a series of three recitals in both New York and London. Her recordings of this repertoire represented the first complete set of Prokofiev Sonatas made available on compact disc.
Ms. Nissman is frequently invited to present master classes at American and European universities (most recently at the Royal Academy of Music in London and Canterbury University, New Zealand) and has presented two-week master courses for pianists at the Federal University in Salvador, Brazil. Barbara also initiated a music lecture series, “Barbara & Friends,” based on the series she had filmed for BBC Television. These informal programs, focusing on the music of one composer, combine music with casual dialogue, enhancing the listening experience of the listener, no matter their musical background. Her opening program of the series features the music of ”Franz Liszt, The Elvis of the Keyboard.”
Performer, writer, lecturer, and frequent guest artist/clinician, she has toured and given master classes throughout the United States, Europe, Russia, the Far East, New Zealand, and South America. In 2008, she received the Governor’s Distinguished Service to the Arts Award from the State of West Virginia. Born and raised in Philadelphia, she now calls West Virginia home and lives on a farm in the Allegheny Mountains.
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