Prize-winning young pianists to perform at festival of the arts (10/12/97)

Prize-winning young pianists to perform at festival of the arts

RANDOLPH, N.J. - Six exceptionally talented young pianists from Ukraine and the U.S., winners of the Horowitz International Young Pianists' Competition, will be presented in concert by the Morris International Festival of the Arts on Sunday, October 19. The event, hosted by the County College of Morris Performing Arts, will take place in the Dragonetti Auditorium, 214 Center Grove Road, at 3 p.m.

The young pianists are winners of the 2nd International Young Pianists' Competition instituted in memory of Vladimir Horowitz, which was held in Kyiv in April. The competition was founded in 1995 to honor the legendary pianist who studied and performed in Kyiv until his immigration to the U.S. in 1928. The competition is divided into three age groups with participants ranging in age from 10 through 24.

Pianists Oleksander Havryliuk, 13, Oleksander Hryniuk, 14, Denis Proshchaev, 19, all from Kyiv; Vitaliy Baran, 23, (Lviv) and Bryan Wallic, 19, (New York), will perform works of Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Moszkowski, and Ukrainian composers Lysenko, Revutsky, Filipenko, Skoryk and Karabyts, among others. Oleksiy Koltiakov, 16, (Kharkiv), winner of the 1995 competition, will perform several Horowtiz transcriptions, which he learned from recordings as they were never published.

The pianists will be introduced by composer Ivan Karabyts of Kyiv, head of the competition's jury.

Admission to the concert is free, but due to limited seating, passes will be required and may be obtained at the college's Student Activities Office. For more information call (973) 328-5076.

Additional concerts will be held at the Sumner School Museum in Washington on October 23 (see preview of events) and in Boston at the New England Conservatory of Music, Kelly Hall at 2 p.m.

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