Photo Credit:
Tristan Cook, courtesy of
Music@Menlo festival
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Noted equally for her brilliant performances of contemporary
music and her deep understanding of the classics, Maya Hartman has
been described as an “Elegant and poetic”
pianist with “an extraordinary capacity for producing
a beautiful sound” (New York Concert
Review). In October 2008 she won the prestigious Pro Musicis
International Award, and subsequently played solo recitals in Weill
Hall at Carnegie Hall and in Boston’s Pickman Hall. This season
she makes her Paris debut at Salle de Cortot through Pro Musicis
France.
Ms. Hartman has performed as soloist with orchestra and in solo
and chamber music recitals at venues such as: Stern Auditorium
at Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Bargemusic,
Merkin Hall, and the Bruno Walter Auditorium in New York City,
and three times on the Dame Myra Hess live television (TV 25)
and radio (WFMT) broadcast series in Chicago. Conductors she has
collaborated with include Pierre Boulez, David Stern, Alan Dennis,
and David Stock, among others. She has appeared at the Lucerne
Festival (Switzerland), International Musicians Seminar in Prussia
Cove (England), Music@Menlo (California), Yellow Barn Festival
(Vermont) and Scotia Festival of Music (Halifax), and has been
broadcast on National Public Radio and on WQXR.
A passionate advocate of the music of our time, Ms. Hartman has
performed works by many composers of the 20th and 21st centuries
including Elliott Carter, Oliver Knussen, Luciano Berio, György
Ligeti, Arthur Berger, Pierre Boulez, Jonathan Harvey, David Cutler,
David Fromm, and Noam Sivan, and has premiered many new works.
On her performance of Milton Babbitt’s Three Compositions for
Piano one reviewer noted: "Hartman's performance … was
a revelation. Generally speaking, Babbitt's scores are dense masses
of extremely difficult writing. Polyphonic, polyrhythmic as well
as non-tonal, in lesser hands they often deteriorate into panicky
incoherence. In Ms. Hartman's confident embrace, however, they
bloomed beautifully. I have rarely heard this kind of piano music
played as well, with such attention to its detail, such clarity
of the twisting strands, and such beauty of sound. This is exactly
the kind of music that sends audiences fleeing on many occasions,
but I defy anyone who was there to hear this performance not to
have been entranced by it."(Timothy Gilligan)
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