September 20, 2013, Friday - Scholarship Benefit Concert Featuring Ralph and Albertine Votapek at MacPhail

Time: 8:00pm

Location: Antonello Hall, MacPhail Center for Music, 501 South 2nd Street

Scholarship Benefit Concert Featuring Ralph and Albertine Votapek

About Ralph Votapek
Born in Milwaukee, Mr. Votapek began his musical education at age nine, when he enrolled in the Wisconsin Conservatory. Continuing his studies at Northwestern University, he subsequently attended the Manhattan School of Music and The Juilliard School, where his principal teachers were Rosina Lhevinne and Robert Goldsand. He has served as Artist-in-Residence at Michigan State University where he is currently Professor Emeritus of Piano at the College of Music.

Pianist Ralph Votapek’s early triumphs — as winner of the prestigious Naumburg Award and gold Medalist in the first Van Cliburn International Piano Competition — were an auspicious prelude to an even more remarkable career. Votapek’s compelling keyboard style embodies all that is best in twentieth-century piano traditions, combining the fire, poetry and tonal warmth of the grand-manner prewar era with the modernday virtues of fastidious clarity and electrifying rhythmic flair.

Frequently joined by his wife Albertine in two piano and four hand recitals, the Votapeks have appeared in Buenos Aires under the auspices of the Mozarteum Argentino, on the Van Cliburn series in Fort Worth, the Pabst Theatre Series in Milwaukee, and have been featured on performing arts series of numerous colleges and universities.

$20 suggested donation.

Program will include works by Haydn, Schumann, Debussy, Piazzolla, and Ravel Concert to benefit the Joan Miller Scholarship fund.