Franklin Larey Concert

Franklin Larey Concert this coming September..

Date: 18 September 2012 19:00 - 18 September 2012 22:00
Location: Masterclass
Organiser: Music and Musicology (Phone 046 603-8489)
Event Type: Ceremonies

FRANKLIN LAREY

Event:              Franklin Larey (piano) - Concert

Venue:             Beethoven Room, Rhodes Department of Music & Musicology

Date:               Tuesday 18 September 2012

Time:               19h30

Entrance:         R50, R20 concessions

Masterclass:     Wednesday 19 September, starting at 08h40

Franklin Larey has been hailed as one of South Africa’s leading pianists and acclaimed for his performances of works by Brahms, Mozart, Scriabin and Ravel. His recent recording of works by Brahms was met with critical acclaim in the USA and in South Africa. Larey teaches at the University of Cape Town, where he was appointed as Director of the South African College of Music from 2002-7. He appears regularly as recitalist, soloist and accompanist, and has worked with conductors such as Isaiah Jackson, Gabriel Chmura, Bernard Gueller, Victor Yampolsky and Lesley Dunner. Of his appearance with the San Jose Symphony, the San Jose Mercury News wrote, "When Franklin Larey turned to soft poetry, time stood still, and the audience held its breath for an eternity. His slow movement was sheer ecstasy - clear, measured, lyrical." He also is in partnership with Francois du Toit as a piano duo.

Larey, who has studied with Bruce Gardiner, Laura Searle, Frank Weinstock and Richard Fields, has received several honours for his work as a concert pianist, and for his contribution to music in South Africa. He has won several awards, including first prize at the 1991 Young Chang International Piano Competition, and third prize at the 1996 New Orleans International Piano Competition.

In 2003 he was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Researcher Award and spent six months in residence at his alma mater, the University of Cincinnati, where he was honoured with a Distinguished Alumnus Award. During this time he also performed at the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage in Washington DC, as an invited Fulbright artist. In South Africa, he has served on the National Arts Council, a documentary of his career was aired on satellite television, and he was featured in South Africa’s Human Sciences Research Council’s published series, Living Treasures.

He currently serves as Director of the summer session of the Adamant Music School in Vermont (USA), and in 2010 he performed at Carnegie Hall (NY) at an anniversary concert of the school.  In 2011 Franklin Larey was featured in the The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project, published by the USA Library of Congress.

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