O piano e suas perspectivas com Dr. Michael Gurt
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Dr. Gurt ocupa a cadeira de piano "Paula Garvey Manship" na Louisiana State University. Em 1982 ganhou o Primeiro lugar no Concurso Internacional de Piano Gina Bachauer, seguindo premiações em concursos internacionais em Pretória-África do Sul, e Sydney-Austrália. Apresentou-se como solista com a Orquestra da Filadélfia, as Sinfonicas de Chicago, Utah, Baltimore, Memphis, Capetown, China, Durban e África do Sul. Suas apresentações como solista fora mem importantes salas como Alice Tully Hall e Weill Recital Hall/Carnegie Hall em Nova Iorque Ambassador Auditorium em Los Angeles, Orchestra Hall em Detroit, Câmara Municipal em Hong Kong, Victorian Arts Center em Melbourne, Austrália, Baxter Hall em Capetown, África do Sul, e o Attaturk Cultural Center em Istambul, Turquia. Gurt colaborou com o Takacs String Quartet e o Cassatt String Quartet, e atuou no Festival Australiano de Música de Câmara em Townsville, Queensland. Foi jurado dos Concursos Internacionais Gina Bachauer e Nova Orleães, e tem gravações pelos selos Naxos, Centauro, e Redwood.
Dr. Gurt atua como Mentor de Piano no National Music Festival em Chestertown, Maryland, e foi presidente da área de piano no Festival de Música de Verão de Sewanee, de 1987 a 2007. Serviu como coordenador na área de piano da Associação de Professores de Música da Louisiana, e ensinou em dois cursos na Universidade de Tunghai em Taichung-Taiwan. Dr. Gurt graduou-se pela Universidade de Michigan e Juilliard School of Music.
Texto em inglês: Michael Gurt is Paula Garvey Manship Distinguished Professor of Piano at Louisiana State University. He won First Prize in the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition in 1982, and was a prize winner in international competitions in Pretoria, South Africa, and Sydney, Australia. He has performed as soloist with the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Utah Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, the Memphis Symphony, the Capetown Symphony, the China National Symphony Orchestra, and the Natal Philharmonic Orchestra in Durban, South Africa. He has made solo appearances in Alice Tully Hall and Weill Recital Hall (Carnegie Hall) in New York, Ambassador Auditorium in Los Angeles, Orchestra Hall in Detroit, City Hall in Hong Kong, the Victorian Arts Center in Melbourne, Australia, Baxter Hall in Capetown, South Africa, and the Attaturk Cultural Center in Istanbul, Turkey He recently completed tours of Portugal and Brazil. Gurt has collaborated with the Takacs String Quartet and the Cassatt String Quartet, and has performed at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music in Townsville, Queensland. He has served on the juries of both the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition and the New Orleans International Piano Competition, and he has recorded on the Naxos, Centaur, and Redwood labels.
He serves as Piano Mentor at the National Music Festival in Chestertown, Maryland, and was the chair of the piano department at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival from 1987 through 2007. He has served as Piano Chair of the Louisiana Music Teachers Association, and has taught at two summer music seminars held at Tunghai University in Taichung, Taiwan. Professor Gurt holds degrees from the University of Michigan and the Juilliard School.