Classical chamber music in an intimate setting, featuring professional performing artists.
No Host bar at 4:00 PM.
One-hour program begins at 4:30.
Dinner at the Country Club will follow the performance.
Tickets for Concert & Dinner: $50.00 (must be purchased in advance)
Concert only: $20.00, Children 4 to 16 FREE.
For more information, call (909) 337-4296
Noëlle Tinturin, producer

Alan Gampel, piano  
 

Program

Preludes, Op. 28                       Frédéric Chopin

La Valse                                     Maurice Ravel

Rodeo                                         Aaron Copland

Alan Gampel

     Alan Gampel’s recent performances include engagements with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Irish National Symphony, Czech Chamber Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.  He has appeared in recital at London’s Wigmore Hall, in Paris at the Theatre du Chatelet, Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Auditorium du Louvre, and Musee d’Orsay, in Rome at the Teatro Ghione, and in the United States at the Kennedy Center, Chicago’s Ravinia Festival, and New York’s Frick Collection Series, Lincoln Center, and the Mostly Mozart Festival.
     Born into an artistic family that includes the legendary harpsichordist Wanda Landowska, Alan Gampel made his debut playing Beethoven Variations at the age of seven at the Hollywood Bowl.  He was honored with the Presidential Scholars Award at the White House at age sixteen and graduated from Stanford University at age nineteen.  In 1995, Alan Gampel was awarded the coveted Chopin Prize at the Arthur Rubenstein International Piano Competition in Israel.  He also received a top prize at the Naumburg International Piano Competition in New York and was unanimously awarded the Special Mozart Bicentenary Prize at the Dublin International Piano Competition in 1991.
     In 1999, Mr. Gampel gave an extensive international recital tour celebrating Chopin’s 150th anniversary.  He incorporated numerous informal appearances at public schools in conjunction with this tour.  Over the years, Alan Gampel’s passion for introducing classical music to young people and his extraordinary ability to connect with and excite children have led him to make these voluntary children’s concerts a staple of his regular concert tours.
     As a result of the overwhelmingly positive response of audiences to the 1999 Chopin Tour format – performances interwoven with discussions of the composer’s life – Alan Gampel has continued this format in many of his subsequent performances.  His touring schedule for the 2000-2001 season focused on the life and works of Franz Liszt, and the following season he presented the life and works of Johannes Brahms.
     Alan Gampel’s recordings include a collection of Beethoven Sonatas, a compilation of works by Chopin, including the “La cidarem la mano” variations, the monumental B minor sonatas by Liszt and Chopin, and a Russian CD featuring Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition”, Prokofiev’s 7th sonata and Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite.

Funded in part by the Ahmanson Foundation, the Ted Roy Charity Foundation/Lake Arrowhead Country Club,
Harry and Marjorie Johnson, and Jim and Paulette Parker.
Piano donated by Cannon Pianos, San Bernardino.