Sara Davis Buechner Recital Confirmed for Aloha International Piano Festival

A favorite with local audiences, Sara Davis Buechner offers rare evening of Haydn, Turina, Gershwin and more at Honolulu piano festival. End Quote

Honolulu, HI (1888PressRelease) May 05, 2011 - The Aloha International Piano Festival (AIPF) is proud to announce that acclaimed pianist Sara Davis Buechner will present a recital featuring charming and beloved works by Haydn, von Weber, Turina and Gershwin at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at the Hawaii Convention Center. A favorite with local audiences and music students, Buechner returns to AIPF by popular demand for an evening brimming with glorious music and exciting conversation. Tickets are on sale now at www.alohapianofestival.com. General admission tickets are $20. Student tickets are only $5.

In keeping with AIPF tradition, Buechner will share insights from the stage, while also welcoming audience questions. Buechner's AIPF recital is a rare opportunity for Honolulu audiences to enjoy an intimate concert with one of the world's most exciting and inspirational concert pianists in a friendly, welcoming setting.

Buechner is a classical concert pianist of noteworthy accomplishment, virtuosic mastery, artistic sensitivity and extraordinary versatility. A major prizewinner of many of the world's most prestigious international piano competitions - Reine Elisabeth of Belgium, Leeds, Salzburg, Sydney and Vienna - she established her career by winning the Gold Medal of the 1984 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition in Salt Lake City, Utah, and as a Bronze Medalist of the 1986 Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow.

In 2003, Buechner joined the eminent Piano Faculty of the University of British Columbia - Vancouver, where she is now associate professor of piano, piano literature and chamber music. She is a former faculty member of New York University, and has presented lectures and masterclasses worldwide, from the Royal Academy in London to Indiana University to National Taiwan Normal University, as well as Singapore's Yong Siu Toh Conservatory, The Juilliard School, the Senzoku Conservatory and Kobe-Yamate Gakuen of Japan.

Sara Davis Buechner - Concert Program:

HAYDN: Sonata in E flat major Hob. XVI:52
Allegro
Adagio
Finale (Presto)

VON WEBER: Sonata in C major op. 24
Allegro
Adagio
Menuetto (Allegro) - Trio (Poco ritenuto)
Rondo (Perpetuum Mobile)

TURINA: Danzas Gitanas (Ten Gypsy Dances)
Book I, op. 55
Zambra - Danza de la Seduccion - Danza ritual - Generalife - Sacro-monte
Book II, op. 84
Fiesta de las calderas - Circulos ritmicos - Invocación - Danza ritmica - Seguriya

GERSHWIN: Foxtrots, transcribed from player piano rolls and acoustic recordings
Swanee
Novelette in Fourths
Do - Do - Do
Kickin' the Clouds Away

More About Sara Davis Buechner
Sara Davis Buechner's musical art was molded by some of the most formidable keyboard virtuosos of the twentieth century - Filipino pianist Reynaldo Reyes; Americans Ann Schein, Phillip Evans and Beveridge Webster; Canadian pianist William Aide; Busoni pupils Edward Weiss, Gunnar Johansen and Mieczyslaw Münz; and graduate study with legendary keyboard masters Byron Janis and Rudolf Firkusny at the Juilliard School. Buechner has inherited, and proudly continues, their pianistic mantle.

With an active repertoire of more than 100 piano concertos ranging from A (Albeniz) to Z (Zimbalist), Buechner has appeared as soloist with North America's most prominent orchestras: the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Saint Louis and San Francisco Symphony Orchestras; the Vancouver, Victoria, Edmonton and Calgary Symphony Orchestras. Abroad, she has appeared as soloist with the Japan Philharmonic, City of Birmingham (U.K.) Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Kuopio (Finland) Philharmonic, Slovak Philharmonic, and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León (Spain).

A prolific recording artist, Buechner's recording of piano music by George Gershwin was selected as a Recording of the Month by Stereophile magazine. Her recording of Hollywood piano concertos by Bernard Herrmann and Franz Waxman won Germany's Deutsches Schauplatten Preis for best soundtrack.

Buechner has commissioned new works, and given premieres of important new music and film scores by Larry Bell, Dorothy Chang, John Corigliano, Takehiko Gokita, Ray Green, Miriam Hyde, William Thomas McKinley, Jared Miller, Joaquin Nin-Culmell, David Raksin and Charles Wuorinen, among others. She appears regularly with the Film Society of Lincoln Center as one of the few pianists to actively perform piano scores to silent movies - notably the 150-minute long restored version of Ben-Hur (1925), and the Danish classic Master of the House (1925).

Buechner is a proud Yamaha artist; she speaks and reads Japanese and is an honorary member of the Hanshin Tigers Baseball Team of Osaka. There are numerous articles and reviews of her work on the internet, and some of her live performances may be viewed on YouTube.

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