When:
Wednesday, Aug 09, 2017 3:30p -
6:30p

Where:
Field Concert Hall at the Curtis Institute of Music
1726
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

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Admission:
$10

Categories:
Performing Arts

Event website:
https://pypa.info/

Join the Philadelphia Young Pianist's Academy (PYPA) as they celebrate their 5th anniversary!


Between Tuesday, August 8 and Tuesday, August 15, 2017, there are numerous performances in the 240-seat Field Concert Hall at Curtis Institute. Open to the public, there are young artist concerts, master classes, recitals by PYPA faculty and a chamber music concert.


General admission tickets for each of the PYPA faculty concerts are $25 in advance at www.pypa.info or at the door, and $12 for students with valid I.D. Cash only at the door. A pass to observe a session of a PYPA master class is $10.


About Gary Graffman:


The former President of Curtis Institute of Music, Gary Graffman is world renowned. He has numerous recordings with the orchestras of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Cleveland, and Chicago under such conductors as Bernstein, Ormandy, Szell, and Mehta. He has performed concertos by the most highly respected composers in history -- Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Brahms, Chopin, and Beethoven. Despite a hand injury in 1979, he continues to have an active performing career. After studying at Curtis Institute of Music beginning in 1936 and graduating ten years later, he returned in 1986 and served as director until May 2006, and then president from 1995 to 2006.

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