Opening Celebration
Opening Celebration
24|25 Season Opening Celebration
featuring world-renowned pianist Mikhail Voskresensky
Saturday, September 28
6:15 PM Pre-Show Tour & Reception | Pfleeger Concert Hall Stage
7:30 PM Concert | Boyd Recital Hall
Invest in the future of world-class arts programming in South Jersey!
Join College of Performing Arts Dean Rick Dammers and Marie Rader Series Artistic Director Debbie Shapiro to peek behind the curtain for a backstage tour, toast, reception, and luminous piano recital from Mikhail Voskresensky.
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$45 General Admission (includes backstage tour, reception, and performance)
Rowan student tickets are not currently available.
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856-256-4567
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Artist Bio
For more than 60 years and counting, Russian pianist Mikhail Voskresensky has given concerts around the world. As the top prize winner of the Schumann International Piano competition, Rio de Janeiro, Enescu in Bucharest and The First Van Cliburn competition, Voskresensky has captivated audiences with his electrifying interpretations of the great piano literature of all styles.
Born in the city Berdyansk (Ukraine), Voskresensky graduated from the Moscow Conservatory. His teachers included Lev Oborin (the first prize winner of the First Chopin Competition in Warsaw), Ilia Klyachko, Jacob Milstein, Boris Zemliansky and Leonid Roizman (organ). Voskresensky’s career began from a performance of Chopin’s 2nd piano concerto in Warsaw with the Bolshoi Theatre Urchestra under the baton of Eugeny Svetlanov. In 1957 he played the European premiere of Shostakovich's 2nd concerto in the Prague Spring Festival at the presence of the composer himself, who gave him several lessons personally.
His YouTube channel boasts more than 100 videos of his recitals and concertos with orchestras. The last live recordings include 27 piano concertos of Mozart and all of his sonatas, all of Beethoven’s concertos with the Choral Fantasy and many others.
Voskresensky is the distinguished professor of the Moscow Tchaikovsky conservatory, and Chair of the Piano faculty. Since 1992 he has also served as guest professor of the Toho Gakuen School in Tokyo. His pupils have won more than 120 international prizes, including 61 gold medals, and include Varvara Nepomniatschaya, Stanislav Igolinsky, Temirzhan Erzhanov, Yury Favorin, Alexander Guindin, Amir Tebenikhin, Sergei Koudriakov, Alexey Nabiulin, Evelina Vorontsova, Mikhail Yanovitsky, Oleg Marshev, Sergey Neller, Alexey Kurbatov, Yuri Martynov and many others.
He was awarded the highest artistic title in Russia - People Artist of Russia (1989), as well as the Japanese Medal of “the Rising Sun and Gold Rays,” awarded by the Emperor of Japan.
In June 2022 Voskresensky left Russia with his family in protest against the war in Ukraine and immigrated to the United States, where he immediately became in demand, and currently serves as visiting professor at the Juilliard School. Recent recitals include the Lilacs Recital Series (Manhattan), the PianoTexas International Festival, the Northern Lights Music Festival (Minnesota), Rowan University, and Eastman School of Music, which were all received as brilliant successes.
About the Marie Rader Presenting Series
The Marie Rader Presenting Series (MRPS) at Rowan University is a curated performing arts series that uplifts the region's cultural landscape. Focused on community engagement, artistic integrity, and inclusion, MRPS provides public offerings that reflect the innovation and quality consistent with Rowan's overall standards of high achievement and transformation, while providing unprecedented access for youth, families, and seniors.
Because of the Marie Rader Series, you don't have to travel to New York or Philadelphia to see some of the most influential leaders in dance, music, theatre and beyond. This series is also designed to introduce you to artists you wouldn't otherwise encounter-- artists who reflect not only the future of performing arts, but who help us envision a better world, right now, right here in South Jersey.
The Marie Rader is made possible in part through generous support from the Henry M. Rowan Family Foundation via the Marie Rader Memorial Fund and through funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.
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