James Dick Performs Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23

Founder and Artistic Director of the Round Top Festival Institute, James Dick, will be performing a concert to benefit The James Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts. The James Dick Foundation gives over $600,000 in scholarships each year to young pre-professional musicians who are training for a career in orchestral playing. To learn more about The James Dick Foundation and the Round Top Festival Institute, visit FestivalHill.org

Program Director of the Round Top Festival Institute, Iverson Eliopoulos, will lead the orchestra in a program of three delightful works for chamber orchestra, culminating in Mozart's transendent Piano Concerto No. 23 with James Dick as soloist.

Program

Wojciech Kilar: Orawa

Richard Wagner: Siegfried Idyll

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K488

Admission is FREE with a suggested donation of $20. All proceeds will go towards The James Dick Foundation.

About the Artist

JAMES DICK is recognized as one of the truly important pianists of his generation. As an internationally renowned concert pianist and Steinway artist, Dick brings keyboard performances that radiate intellectual insight and emotional authenticity. Raised in rural Kansas, his talent moved him from the farm to the University of Texas music building and then to the world’s great concert halls. He received a scholarship to The University of Texas at Austin and later was a Fulbright Scholar. Dick’s early triumphs as a major prizewinner in the Tchaikovsky, Bosni and Leventritt International Competitions were a prelude to an eminent career highlighted by acclaimed recitals and concerto performances in the world’s premier concert halls.
Dick has received numerous honors and commendations, including the Texas Medal of Arts, the Chevalier des Arts et Lettres from the French Ministry of Culture, and Honorary Associate of London’s Royal Academy of Music.
In addition to his schedule as a world-renowned guest artist, in 1971 Dick established the Round Top Festival Institute in Round Top, Texas to nurture and incubate aspiring young musicians. The institute, operated by the James Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts, has grown from a handful of gifted young pianists in a rented space on the town square of Round Top to a 210-acre European-styled campus. Each year, distinguished faculty teach nearly 100 young artists and the festival institute provides year-round education and performance programs for audiences.

Host or Publisher Iverson Eliopoulos