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News Bureau
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71497
(318) 357-6466
1/23/2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NATCHITOCHES - Pianist Ivo Kaltchev will perform at Northwestern State University Saturday, Jan. 27 at 7:30 p.m. in Magale Recital Hall. The concert is part of the Louisiana Piano Series International. Tickets are $10. Elementary and secondary school students from Louisiana and NSU students are admitted free.
Kaltchev, a native of Bulgaria, will perform works by Debussy, George Gershwin, Ravel and Mussorgsky.
A prizewinner of international piano competitions and a Bösendorfer Artist, Kaltchev performs as a recitalist, soloist with orchestras, chamber musician and recording artist. The Newark (N.J.) Star Ledger said he was "a master of the whole range of pianistic attacks and coloristic effects."
Kaltchev has performed in musical centers throughout the world, including Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, Kennedy Center, Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory Malii and Rachmaninov Halls, St. Petersburg State Philharmonic Hall, Warsaw National Philharmonic Hall, Teatro Verdi (Italy), Tel Aviv Museum Recanati Auditorium, Mendelssohn Hochschule für Musik Hall (Germany), Princeton University's Richardson Auditorium and Bulgaria Hall.
He has performed and taught at festivals throughout the world including the Mozart International Music Festival (Frankfurt, Germany), the Toledo International Music Festival (Spain), the Sofia Music Weeks International Festival (Bulgaria), the Lincoln Center French Music Festival, the Varna Summer International Festival (Bulgaria), the Rutgers SummerFest, Music Naturally Summer Festival and Florida University Young Pianist Festival.
Some of the highlights of recent seasons include both a solo recital and a concerto performance with the New York Festival Orchestra (now EOS Orchestra) in Alice Tully Hall, performances of the complete solo piano works of Debussy and the complete songs of Henri Duparc as well as concerts in the U.S., China, Russia, Germany, Spain, Finland, Bulgaria and the Virgin Islands. Kaltchev performs regularly at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Russian pianist Irina Koulikova. Kaltchev has collaborated with distinguished artists such as pianist Ilana Vered, tenor Frederick Urrey, sopranos Sharon Christman and Fabiana Bravo, Essex Quartet, and members of the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra and Royal Concertgebouw.
Kaltchev is a recipient of pedagogy awards for teaching excellence from the Piano Teachers Society of America and the Princeton Steinway Society. In addition to being a faculty member of the World Piano Pedagogy Conference, he is an active adjudicator and has presented lectures, workshops and master classes in the United States, Europe, China and the Virgin Islands. Kaltchev is a full-time associate professor of piano at the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. as well as a visiting professor at the China Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China.