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“Stars of David” Piano Concert
August 15 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
José López is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Keyboard Studies Program at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, President of the South Florida Chapter of the American Liszt Society, and Honorary Secretary of the United Kingdom’s Alkan Society. He has performed throughout the United States, Italy, and Central and South America with orchestras, solo recitals, and chamber groups in concert halls, summer festivals such as the Music Festival of the Hamptons in New York and the Killington Music Festival in Vermont. Active throughout South Florida, he has been a featured performer in the Florida International University’s Music Festival; ISCM New Music Miami Festival, the Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival, Coral Gables’ Mainly Mozart Series, University of Miami’s Miami Festival, and as founder and co-director of the Deering Estate at Cutler’s “Chamber Music Series.”
About the Composers
Fanny (1805-1847) & Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Known for their precocious talent, the German siblings soon gained prominence as prodigies comparable to Mozart.
Benjamin Godard (1849-1895) was a French violinist and Romantic composer best known for his opera Jocelyn.
Ferdinand Hiller (1811-1885) was a German conductor and composer of numerous operas. He organized and directed the Cologne Conservatory.
Julius Schulhoff (1825-1898) was a Bohemian pianist and composer of virtuosic salon pieces for solo piano.
Charles Valentin Alkan (1813-1888) was a French composer and virtuoso pianist, a leading figure of the Parisian music scene of 1830-the 1840s alongside Frederic Chopin and Franz Liszt.