See 3 performances featuring Stephen KovacevichOn 17 October 2010 Stephen Kovacevich celebrated his 70th birthday with a concert at the Wigmore Hall, a venue he performed in for the first time over 50 years ago. Born in Los Angeles, Stephen Kovacevich made his concert debut as a pianist at the age of 11. When he was 18 he moved to England to study with Dame Myra Hess. His international reputation has been built both on his concert appearances, renowned for their thoughtfulness and re-creative intensity, and on the highly acclaimed recordings he has made throughout his career.
Stephen Kovacevich has appeared with many of the world’s finest orchestras and conductors including Colin Davis, Hans Graf, Bernard Haitink, Kurt Masur, Simon Rattle and Georg Solti.
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| 22-May-2013 La Maison Symphonique de Montréal | Mahler's Fifth with David Zinman and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal |
 The program this evening was quite significantly lopsided – though most programs containing Mahler symphonies end up being this way. Tonight’s juxtaposition was quite profound, perhaps even more than usual. Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 18 in B flat major was poised like a pebble next to a mountain. It was a polished pebble, but minuscule in comparison nonetheless.
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| 14-Mar-2013 Birmingham Town Hall | Stephen Kovacevich plays the "three Bs" in Birmingham |
 Though born in America, Stephen Kovacevich has lived in London since moving there to study with the great Dame Myra Hess at the age of eighteen. He clearly has a special rapport with British audiences, as his amiable manner in discussing his encores demonstrated. In fact, one of his “encores” was given at the start of the second half of the programme (“why do encores have to be at the end?” he joked).
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| 17-Feb-2012 Sydney Opera House: Concert Hall | Scaling the heights: Sydney Symphony play Beethoven and Strauss |
 Beethoven was certainly not afraid of breaking traditions. He broke several long-held Classical traditions in his Piano Concerto no. 4, and no break was more revolutionary than beginning a concerto with the solo instrument. It was in this way that the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy opened their latest musical offering at Sydney Opera House. The pianist who opened the concert with the quiet G major chords of Beethoven's masterwork was one of the older statesmen of the piano, Stephen Kovacevich, who celebrated his seventieth birthday in 2010.Read full review... | |
