ADAM GYORGY at the Judy and Arthur Zankel Hall

PLEASE SWITCH OFF YOUR CELL PHONES AND OTHER ELECTRONIC DEVICES.

Saturday Afternoon, October 6, 2007, at 2:00

Judy and Arthur Zankel Hall

AN AFTERNOON WITH

ADAM GYORGY

Improvisation on well-known works

F. CHOPIN Ballade in G minor (Op. 23)

F. LISZT Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

Intermission

J.S. BACH/M. HESS Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring

J.S. BACH/E. PETRI Sheep May Safely Graze

VERDI/LISZT Rigoletto Paraphrase

F. LISZT La Campanella

MENDELSSOHN/LISZT/ Wedding March transcription

HOROWITZ/GYORGY

MEET THE Artist

When Adam was a young boy, he drew everything upside down. This worried

his parents so much that they took him to a doctor. After a few examinations

the doctor decided that Adam was perhaps “a bit special.”

Unable to accept this diagnosis, his father continued to examine him. One day

he sat opposite Adam and asked, “Well, son, please draw me a house!” To his

father’s dismay, the house still appeared upside down in the drawing. By this

time it was clear to his father as well that maybe the boy had a problem.

Eventually, his father figured it out: his son draws everything upside down in

order to better display his drawing to the viewer.

Almost 20 years have gone by but Adam’s mentality has not changed. Only that

instead of drawing, he plays the piano to us, his audience.

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Adam won all the prizes (I. Prize, Grand Prize, and Special Prize) at the

International Chopin Piano Competition in Budapest in 2004. That same year,

CNN did a report documenting his American Tour and called him a “rising star.”

In 2005, Adam became a Steinway Artist and found himself in the company

of some of the most famous pianists ever—including Vladimir Horowitz and

Krystian Zimerman.

Adam had his Carnegie debut in 2006. He was also the first Hungarian pianist

who signed a contract with a U.S. label, which in turn has given the world an

opportunity to hear his recordings, making them available in 400 online stores.

He regularly appears at prestigious concert halls in the U.S., Switzerland, China,

Singapore, and Indonesia. Adam is gaining a reputation as one of the finest

European pianists of his generation. This piano virtuoso is powered by the

spirit of Liszt, and his improvisations on well-known melodies make his

concerts unforgettable.

His newest album, Plays the Piano (2007), contains both studio and concert

recordings of pieces from Bach to Liszt as well as original compositions.