Yuliya Gorenman and Russian Composers

Beethoven, Piano Sonatas, Y. Gorenman (2010)

Charles T. Downey, Pianist Yuliya Gorenman takes on Russian composers at Katzen Center (Washington Post, March 23)

Pianist Yuliya Gorenman won fourth prize at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in 1995. Since coming to the United States to continue her studies, she has settled in Washington, teaching and serving as musician-in-residence at American University. Her recitals there, including a complete cycle of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, have lately had a national focus, ending with Russian composers in a program heard on Saturday night at the Katzen Arts Center.

Gorenman opened with Tchaikovsky’s “The Seasons,” a set of 12 brief pieces commissioned for a Russian monthly magazine, one for each month of the year in 1876... [Continue reading]

Yuliya Gorenman, piano
Katzen Arts Center
American University