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Cal Poly Pomona Music Department 3801 W. Temple Avenue, Pomona, CA 91768 Phone: 909-869-3554 Fax: 909-869-4145 Website: http://www.class.csupomona.edu/mu For Details, Contact: Teresa Kelly, Music Department Publicist Email: [email protected] Phone: 909-869-3554 For Release: September 30, 2013 Pianist Dmitri Shteinberg to perform at Cal Poly Pomona as part of the Shpachenko and Friends Chamber Music Festival Dmitri Shteinberg, pianist Performing works by Mozart, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Schubert, Scriabin and Prokofiev Concert Wednesday, October 23rd 2013 at 8:00pm/Free Master Class at 12:00pm Cal Poly Pomona Music Recital Hall Concert Tickets:$15 General/$10 Student Admission –available online at csupomona.tix.com or the Music Department Box Office #24-188 12-1pm daily or one hour before showtime The Cal Poly Pomona Music Department is proud to welcome pianist Dmitri Shteinberg to perform as part of the Fall 2013 Shpachenko and Friends Chamber Music Festival. Shteinberg has performed around the globe in solo and chamber music performances, and has appeared across North America, Germany, England, France, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Bulgaria and Israel. Called ‘’protean and refined’’ by the New York Times, Shteinberg has recorded for the Israeli ‘’Voice of Music’’ radio station, the NPR, the Bavarian Radio, Summit Records and Sono Luminus labels and the Yamaha Disklavier, and has collaborated with members of the New York Philharmonic and the cellists Han-Na Chang and Natalia Gutman. His solo performances include the Jerusalem Symphony, The Italian Filarmonica Marchigiana, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Israel Camerata Orchestra and Porto National Symphony under the batons of Massimo Pradella, Roger Nierenberg, Florin Totan and David Shallon, among others. In the United States, he appeared with the Baton Rouge, Richmond, Charlottesville, Salisbury and Manassas symphony orchestras. Chamber music appearances include the Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, The Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Alice Tully Hall in New York and the Saunders Theatre in Boston. Besides solo and chamber music performances, Shteinberg frequently appears with concert-lectures; he also plays harpsichord and period pianos. His interest in new music has led to world premieres and numerous commissions. A native of Moscow, Dmitri Shteinberg studied at the Gnessin Special School of Music under Anna Kantor, teacher of Evgeny Kissin. His later teachers include Victor Derevianko and Nina Svetlanova, both students of Heinrich Neuhaus. Shteinberg holds a Doctorate from the Manhattan School of Music, and is currently an Artist Teacher of Piano at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. His former students received scholarships at numerous prestigious schools, including Manhattan School of Music, Eastman, the Oberlin Conservatory and the Cleveland Institute of Music . He is also on faculty at the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Burlington, VT.
