Live 'Remote Piano Recital' by Edisher Savitski at Yamaha's Piano Salon November 27, 2007

Leveraging the latest in music technology, accomplished pianist and third Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition winner Edisher Savitski, will perform a ‘remote’ piano performance in New York from his Michigan home on November 27th, 2007. Playing a Yamaha Disklavier Pro Piano will enable Mr. Savitski’s performance to be digitally transferred via the Internet and reproduced in real time on another Disklavier at Yamaha’s midtown piano salon. A Q & A session, as well as a discussion of the performance and educational implications of this technology, will follow the performance. The program will include a selection of pieces from Mr. Savitski’s upcoming December 11th recital at Zankel Hall:

-Mozart: Sonata in F Major, K533/K494
-Franck: “Prelude, Choral, and Fugue”
-Scriabin: Sonata #7- Op. 65 “White Mass”
-Prokofiev: Sonata #7- Op. 83

Edisher Savitski is the winner of the third Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition, in which contestants performed on Yamaha Disklavier Pro performance reproducing pianos and submitted their performances digitally through the internet to an identical Disklavier for “e-judging.”

Mr. Savitski began his musical studies in his birthplace of Tbilisi, Georgia, attending the Central Music School with Maya Beridze and later, the Tbilisi Conservatory with Nana Khubutia. As a frequent performer in recitals and a soloist with orchestras, he received a special grant from the President of Georgia in 1998. That year, Savitski also joined the piano studio of Alexander Toradze at Indiana University South Bend, where he earned his Masters degree and Artist Diploma. In the following year, he won second prize at the William Byrd International Piano Competition and was invited to spend the summer studying at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California. In 2001, he was one of the six pianists to be invited to the prestigious Steans Institute at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago. In the same year, he also took first prize at the Hilton Head International Piano Competition. Savitski placed fourth in the first Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition in 2002. He has performed at Carnegie’s Weill Hall, New York; Mozarteum, Salzburg; Wigmore Hall, London; and Mariinsky Theater, St. Petersburg; as well as in other venues in Japan, Israel, New Zealand, and throughout Europe and the United States. He has also appeared at the Salzburg Festival, Austria; the Ruhr Festival, Germany; the Ravenna and Stresa Festivals, Italy; and the Gilmore Keyboard Festival. His performances have often been broadcasted on television and radio, including on NPR’s “Performance Today.”

This event is FREE OF CHARGE and open to the public.

For further recital information and reservations, contact (212) 339-9995, x 0 or visit www.yamaha.com/yasi.

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