Ingrid Jacoby, piano: Pictures in Music
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$25 Adult
$20 Wash U faculty/staff with ID
$5 students and youth
Free Wash U students with ID
Program:
Bach: Partita No. 2 in C minor
Sinfonia
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Rondeaux
Capriccio
Debussy: Estampes
Pagodes
La Soirée dans Grenade
Jardins sous la Pluie
Intermission
Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition
Biography:
Ingrid Jacoby is highly-acclaimed for her many recordings and performances throughout the world. Her numerous awards include: the Baldwin National Piano Competition; the Steinway Hall Artists Prize; the National Society of Arts and Letters Lifetime Achievement Award; the Audience’s Favourite Performer Prize at the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition; the Artists Presentation Award; and the Gold Prize at at the Concert Artists Guild Competition in a field of over 1,300 entrants. This resulted in her Carnegie Hall debut, which garnered stellar reviews.
Sir Neville Marriner invited Ingrid Jacoby to record the complete Mozart Concerti with the Academy of St. Martins in the Fields--the only pianist to whom he has given this honour to since Sir Alfred Brendel. Before Sir Neville's death, they recorded 9 works together, receiving highest accolades. Top reviews were given to: the complete Beethoven Concerti with Sinfonia Varsovia; the Shostakovich Concerti with Sir Charles Mackerras and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; and many other recordings. Ms Jacoby has worked with other eminent conductors such as Guiseppe Sinopoli, Leonard Slatkin, Vasily Petrenko, Dimitri Sitkovetsky, Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Constantine Orbellian, Nicholas Collon, and Lady Jane Glover.
Ingrid Jacoby has performed with some of the world's finest orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, the London Mozart Players, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and the Russian National Orchestra, playing in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. In addition to touring China, Europe, America, and South Africa, she has performed at Italy's most prestigious festival, the Ravello Festival. She has also performed at the Aspen Festival in the U.S. and the Aldeburgh Festival in the UK. Ms Jacoby performed Mozart with the Salzburg Chamber Orchestra at the Salzburg Music Festival, in the city's celebrated Mozarteum.