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Benjamin Pasternack Plays Beethoven with the Boston Classical Orchestra at Faneuil Hall

Faneuil Hall (Boston, MA)
Title: Benjamin Pasternack Plays Beethoven
Venue: Faneuil Hall (Boston, MA)
Full Price: $36.00   Our Price: $18.00
The Boston Classical Orchestra welcomes award-winning pianist Benjamin Pasternack for a concert at Faneuil Hall. Pasternack will be the featured soloist in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4. Also on the program: Mendelssohn's "Hebrides" Overture and the charming Symphony No. 3 of Schubert.
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Event Highlights

  • “One of the great piano events of the year, Benjamin Pasternack’s performance of Beethoven’s First Concerto... There was a tumultuous standing ovation.” --Boston Globe (April 2002)
  • WBUR's Mary Ann Nichols will give a free pre-concert lecture one hour before each concert.

More Details About This Event:

The program:

Mendelssohn: “Hebrides” Overture
Schubert: Symphony No. 3 in D major
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major
(with pianist Benjamin Pasternack)

Benjamin Pasternack was the Grand Prize winner at the inaugural World Music Masters Piano Competition held in Paris in July 1989. Bestowed by the unanimous vote of a distinguished panel of judges, the honor carried with it engagements in Portugal, France, Canada, Switzerland and the United States. His earlier competition victory, in August 1988 when he won top prize at the 40th Busoni International Piano Competition, led to a series of recitals in Northern Italy and a compact disc recording on the Nuova Era label.

Mr. Pasternack's American engagements have included solo appearances with the symphony orchestras of Boston, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Hartford. He has been a guest artist at the Tanglewood Music Center, the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, the Capuchos Festival in Portugal and the Menton Festival in France. In October 1988 he won exceptional critical acclaim appearing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on less than 36 hours notice, performing Mozart's Piano Concerto in G Major, K. 453. He appeared again with the Boston Symphony in August 1991, at Tanglewood, as soloist in Leonard Bernstein's Symphony No. 2 ("The Age of Anxiety") under Seiji Ozawa's direction. Shortly thereafter he performed the Bernstein work in Athens, Salzburg and Paris as part of the orchestra's European tour.

A native of Philadelphia, Benjamin Pasternack began his performance career at the age of eight. At thirteen, he entered the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Rudolf Serkin and Seymour Lipkin. His other teachers have included Leon Fleisher and Leonard Shure.

About Boston Classical Orchestra:

Founded by violinist and long-time BCO concertmaster Robert Brink, the orchestra gave its inaugural performance at historic Faneuil Hall in May,1980 with the BCO's first Music Director, F. John Adams, conducting. The orchestra has been performing in this remarkable auditorium ever since. In 1983 Harry Ellis Dickson became Music Director. During his 16-year tenure the orchestra's offerings tripled, many world-class solo artists were engaged and a program of in-school youth concerts was inaugurated. In 1999 when Steven Lipsitt was named Music Director, Dickson became Music Director Laureate (a post he held until his death in March, 2003).

The Boston Classical Orchestra is a fully professional chamber orchestra focused primarily on music of the Classical period. The Orchestra performs five programs each season on Friday evenings and Sunday afternoons. Each program is carefully crafted to encompass a broad spectrum of classical music appropriate for a Beethoven-era orchestra. A lecture about the music precedes both Friday and Sunday concerts, and the conductor offers brief spoken commentary about the music and musicians during the concerts

In addition to playing familiar and lesser-known classics, the BCO occasionally juxtaposes Classically inspired modern compositions. In the 2000-2001 season the orchestra undertook its first-ever commissioned work to honor the late Alford P. Rudnick, a longtime supporter and donor. The result, Herschel Garfein's Places to Live, was performed to audience acclaim and rave reviews. For our 25th anniversary season (2004-2005) ,the BCO commissioned four works from Boston-based or Boston-trained composers:a fanfare by Kenneth Amis, a Bach-inspired overture by Robert Aldridge, a set of variations on a theme of Mozart by Lawrence Wolfe, and a musical portrait of Colonial Boston by Tison Street. This last piece earned a prestigious Koussevitzky Award. In March 2006, the BCO performed Michael Weinstein's Chamber Symphony in collaboration with the New England Orchestra Consortium and the American Composers Forum New England. In March 2007 the BCO will peform the world premiere of a new work by Howard Frazin, “Theme & Reverberations” for Two Tubas and orchestra, featuring tubists Mike Roylance and Eli Newberger.

Performances often include outstanding local and internationally recognized soloists. Recent guest artists have included Sharon Isbin, classical guitar; John Ferrillo, oboe; world-class piano trio The Boston Trio; Benjamin Pasternack, piano; and international opera singer Barbara Quintilliani.

The BCO offers outstanding live performances in an intimate, welcoming, and historic setting. It is one of Boston's richest cultural treasures.

About Faneuil Hall:

This old market building, first built in 1742, sits at the site of the old town dock. Town meetings, held here between 1764 and 1774, heard Samuel Adams and others lead cries of protest against the imposition of taxes on the colonies. The building was enlarged in 1806. Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Lucy Stone brought their struggles for freedom here in the 19th century. Market stalls on the first floor service shoppers much as they did in Paul Revere's day.