CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON PRESENTS
PIANIST MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN
IN HIS CELEBRITY SERIES DEBUT
AT NEC’s JORDAN HALL SATURDAY, JANUARY 26  

(BOSTON)—Celebrity Series of Boston, Martha H. Jones, President and Executive Director, presents pianist Marc-André Hamelin in recital at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall on Saturday, January 26 at 8:00p.m. The engagement marks the Celebrity Series debut for Mr. Hamelin who will perform a program of works by Haydn, Chopin, Schubert, Villa-Lobos, and Alexis Weissenberg. The performance is an Aaron Richmond Recital.

French-Canadian pianist Marc-André Hamelin performs regularly throughout North America, Europe, Australia, and the Far East. He established himself as one of the world’s great pianists playing rare and adventurous repertoire; his current output also embraces music from the classical and romantic periods. Mr. Hamelin appears regularly in the International Piano Series at London’s South Bank Centre and the London Pianoforte Series at Wigmore Hall. During the 2007-2008 season he performs works by Haydn, Chopin, and Debussy at Lincoln Center, Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Hall, and London’s Wigmore Hall, as well as in concert series in Chicago and San Francisco.

As an exclusive Hyperion recording artist, Mr. Hamelin’s recording catalogue is vast and eclectic including concertos by Alkan, Bernstein, Bolcom, Korngold, Joseph Marx, Medtner, Rodion Schedrin, Scriabin, and Shostakovich, along with solo recordings of Alkan, Catoire, Nikolai Kapustin, Liszt, Reger, Roslavets, Rzewski, Schumann, and Villa Lobos. Mr. Hamelin’s double album of the complete Chopin-Godowsky Etudes won the 2000 Gramophone Instrumental Award. In 2001, with two nominations for his recording of the Busoni Concerto with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Mark Elder, Mr. Hamelin was the only classical artist to play live at the Grammy Awards. He received another Grammy nomination in 2002 for his recording featuring the works of Alkan. His most recent releases include the Brahms 2 nd concerto and a disc of Haydn Sonatas. In 2008 he will record the last three of Beethoven’s piano sonatas.

In 2005 Mr. Hamelin was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and a Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Québec.

PROGRAM INFORMATION
Saturday, January 26 at 8:00 PM
NEC’s Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston
MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN, pianist

HAYDN
Sonata in F Major, Hob. XVI: 23
Sonata in B-flat Major, Hob. XVI: 41

ALEXIS WEISSENBERG
Sonate en état de jazz (Sonata in a state of jazz)

CHOPIN
Barcarolle, Opus 60
Third Ballade, Opus 47
My joys (from Six Polish Songs) (Arr. Liszt)

SCHUBERT
Ständchen
Ave Maria (Arr. Liszt)

VILLA-LOBOS
Rudepoema

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TICKETING INFORMATION
Remaining tickets, priced at $55, $45, and $35, are available by calling CelebrityCharge at (617) 482-6661 (Monday-Friday 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.), online at www.celebrityseries.org, or at the Jordan Hall box office, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston.

About Celebrity Series of Boston
Celebrity Series of Boston is New England's leading presenter of music, dance, and the performing arts from around the world. Founded in 1938, the Series incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation in 1989. Each year, the Celebrity Series brings to Boston's major concert halls performances by instrumental and vocal soloists, symphony orchestras, chamber ensembles, dance companies, jazz and popular music performers, folk and ethnic performance groups, and other performing artists. The Celebrity Series' Arts, Education and Community program was initiated in 1984. The program reaches thousands of students annually in Boston area schools and communities. The program includes the award-winning AileyCamp Boston, a six-week summer dance program for Boston middle school students, and ACT 2, an after-school initiative for former participants of AileyCamp Boston. For more information on Celebrity Series of Boston, call (617) 482-2595 or visit us online at www.celebrityseries.org.

The Celebrity Series receives major annual support from two anonymous donors; The Little Family Foundation; The Susanne Marcus Collins Foundation; Bank of America; The Linde Family Foundation; Tufts Health Plan; Talbots Charitable Foundation; Foley & Lardner LLP; Charlesbank Capital Partners; Comcast; Morgan Stanley; BDO Seidman; PTC; Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Foundation; Steven and Joan Belkin Foundation; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; The Consulate General of Canada; The Collings Foundation; The Esther B. Kahn Charitable Foundation; The Red Sox Foundation; Massachusetts Cultural Council; National Endowment for the Arts; New England Foundation for the Arts; Catherine and Paul Buttenwieser Foundation; The Harris A. Berman and Ruth E. Nemzoff Family Foundation; Amy and Joshua Boger; DeMoulas Foundation; Margaret Eagle and Eli Rapaport; Kathleen and Steven Haley; Cerise and Charles Jacobs; Paul L. King; Jann E. Leeming and Arthur D. Little; Paul F. and Barbara A. Levy; Frank and Eleanor Pao; Spring Sirkin and Arthur Frank; Dorothy and Stephen Weber; Nancy Richmond Winsten and Dr. Joseph Winsten; Charles O. Wood, III and Miriam M. Wood; Ellen and Arnold Zetcher.

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