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Piano Master Class with David Breitman

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Tuesday, October 27, 2015
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Music Master Class Series

The public is invited to observe this free master class. Pianist David Breitman directs the Historical Performance program at Oberlin. He is equally at home with the fortepiano and the modern piano, and enjoys both solo and ensemble playing. Recent seasons have included Beethoven's Fourth Concerto and Choral Fantasy on both historical and modern pianos, and several performances at the renowned Cobbe Collection of historical instruments outside of London. His collaboration with baritone Sanford Sylvan spans more than thirty years, with several hundred recitals and four CDs, ranging from Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin, to the premiere recording of The Glass Hammer, a major song cycle by the Cuban-American composer Jorge Martin. He has recorded the Mozart piano-violin sonatas on historical instruments with Jean-François Rivest for Analekta, and, in a collaboration of a different sort, he is one of seven fortepianists on the 10-CD recording of the complete Beethoven piano sonata cycle on CLAVES. Breitman's most recent projects involve more Beethoven: a recording of the violin sonatas with Elizabeth Wallfisch and the cello sonatas with Jaap ter Linden. He is working on a book titled "Time-Travel for Pianists: How Today's Players Can Learn from Yesterday¿s Instruments."

Type: MASTERCLASS
Contact: Elizabeth Thompson