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Portland Piano International
Anton Kuerti in recital February 7!
"Kuerti is the best pianist currently playing." - Fanfare
"One of the truly great pianists of this century." - CD Review
"Risky - and magnificent." - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Portland Piano International presents Anton Kuerti, performing an All-Beethoven program. Mr.
Kuerti was born in Austria, grew up in the U.S., and has lived in Canada for the last 35 years. His teachers included Arthur Loesser, Mieczyslaw Horszowski and Rudolf Serkin. Winner of the Leventritt, Schumann Gesellschaft, and Banff Centre National Arts Prize, Mr. Kuerti
maintains a busy performance and teaching schedule in North America and abroad.
A similar All-Beethoven program at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw resulted in reviews heaped with superlatives:
“The miracle occurred when Anton Kuerti began his superior interpretation of the ‘Diabelli Variations’ ... this work is considered an unconquerable fortress by many a pianist. Not by Kuerti whose performance was flawless, dazzling, lively and analytical, with an unparalleled ability to link the 33 variations with each other."- Trouw
"Kuerti was able to create moments in which it even appeared as though the music were born anew right then and there." - de Volkskrant
"Kuerti played [the Diabelli Variations] so flawlessly that you could have made [the live performance] into a CD. And, much more importantly, it was more poetically refined than you will ever hear anywhere else." - NRC Handelsblad
"His passion left a lasting impression and his tone production brought out many colors and nuances. It seemed as though we were hearing a new score ... The great imagination Kuerti brought to the works elevated the performance to an absolutely top level. What perfection!" - Noord-Hollands Dagblad
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