Vincent Van Gelder, piano
Sunday, March 29, 2015
7:30 p.m.
Beckwith Recital Hall, located in the Cultural Arts Building on Randall Drive
$6 general public / free to students with valid UNCW ID
Tickets on sale at the Cultural Arts Building box office one hour prior to performance.
Advance tickets are not sold.
Program includes works by
Sergei Prokofiev
Maurice Ravel
Manuel De Falla / Vincent van Gelder
Franz Liszt
About the artist
Vincent van Gelder was born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He studied at several academies and universities in Holland, Latvia, and the United States, receiving two masters and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance from the University of Missouri at Kansas City. His most influential teachers were Leslie Howard, Czerny-Stefanska, Teofils Bikis, Arnis Zandmanis, Wilfred Delphin, and Richard Cass.
Van Gelder has won top prizes in many national and international piano competitions, including the Liszt-Garrison International Piano Competition, Artist International Competition, and St. Louis Artist Presentation competition. He has performed in several European countries, and throughout the United States, including a well-reviewed solo recital at Carnegie Hall, and has been a soloist with several orchestras. As a chamber pianist he has performed with musicians such as Dmitri Sitkovetski, members of the Ciompi Quartet, and his wife, Inara Zandmane. Van Gelder recently began a collaboration with composer Alejandro Rutty, who wrote a piano concerto for Van Gelder that he premiered with the UNCG Symphony orchestra. His touring schedule includes upcoming concerts in London and China.
Recent awards have included video recordings of several programs and his two CD’s. His recordings have been played on radio and television stations in the United States, as well as The Netherlands. Van Gelder has been member of the piano faculty at Duke University.
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