Steinway Society-The Bay Area presents
John Ferguson Pianist
Sunday January 20, 2002 7 p.m.
Le Petit Trianon 72 N. 5th St. San Jose

408-246-4200. Tickets are $10.00 for Steinway Society Benefactors
$15.00 for the General Public and $5 students/seniors over 65.
 
John Ferguson Is a multi-faceted performer and composer whose unique programs reflect his diversity as a musician. Ferguson's innovative performances typically include contemporary music, rare and unusual classical repertoire, original works, jazz and experimental music. Often this repertoire is combined with visual/theatrical performances (of his own design) in “multimedia” recitals. Ferguson holds a Doctoral Degree in Piano from Indiana University, where his principal teachers were Menahem Pressler and Edward Auer.

His debut recital in September of 2000 at the Boston Conservatory of Music was met with high praise by the Boston Globe “ proselytizing zeal-along with fleet fingers, power, and fine dynamic control” . The Sacramento Bee also reviewed a recent recital stating “pianist plays old, new, his own,---all brilliantly”.

Awards presented to Ferguson include 2nd prize S.F. State Piano competition, 1st Prize Lodi Symphony competition, 2nd prize in MTAC Concerto Competition. At the University of the Pacific Conservatory he received the Outstanding Performer award and was a winner in the UOP Concerto Competition. In 1990 he received a Presser Scholarship.

Dr. Ferguson currently resides in Boston, where he teaches piano, violin, and composition at several Boston-area community schools, and is staff accompanist at Boston Conservatory and Emerson College.
He will perform the following works:

Chopin Barcarolle
Carter 90+
Antheil Sonata No. 4
Beethoven "Hammerklavier" Sonata No.29 in B-flat

Steinway Society - The Bay Area is broadening the vision for arts patrons in the San Francisco Bay Area through an organization that fosters intimate evenings with some of the world’s finest pianists, and whose mission Is to promote excellence in piano performance and music education. For ticket information, call Steinway Society the Bay Area at 408-246-4200. Tickets are $10.00 for Steinway Society Benefactors and $15.00 for the General Public and $5 students/seniors over 65. (Visa/MC) convenient parking.