MSU welcomes internationally acclaimed pianist Victor Rosenbaum for free concert this week
Contact: Bethany Shipp
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State’s Department of Music is hosting a free concert Thursday [Feb. 5] featuring internationally acclaimed pianist and teacher Victor Rosenbaum.
The performance takes place at 7:30 p.m. in MSU’s Music Building Recital Hall, 124 Hardy Road. Free and open to the public, it celebrates the works of Austrian composer Franz Schubert.
Amy Catron, MSU string area coordinator and cello professor, and Serena Scibelli, former MSU violin professor, join Rosenbaum for the “Schubertiade.” Celebrating 229 years since Schubert’s birth, the recital includes sonatas for violin and cello, as well as the Piano Trio in B-flat major, D. 898.
“We are honored and privileged to have an artist and teacher like Victor Rosenbaum in residence at Mississippi State University,” Catron said. “Victor is a consummate musician who magically combines fervor and gentleness with sensitivity, intellect and authenticity. His award-winning recordings of Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert are legendary, and his student Aristo Sham recently won the Van Cliburn competition. I am incredibly grateful to share the stage with him, and to give our students the opportunity to learn from such a master.”
Rosenbaum has performed in concerts widely as a soloist and chamber musician in the U.S., Europe, Israel, Brazil, Russia and Asia, including the prestigious Tully Hall in New York and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia. He has collaborated with major artists of the 20th and 21st centuries including Leonard Rose, Arnold Steinhardt, Robert Mann, Joseph Silverstein, James Buswell and the Brentano, Borromeo and Cleveland string quartets. Rosenbaum recently retired from the faculty of New England Conservatory in Boston, where he taught for more than 50 years, chaired the piano department for more than a decade and also was chair of chamber music.
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