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Pianist Jura Margulis returns for his sixth performance at Hidden Valley to present a rich and powerful program featuring the works of Alexander Scriabin, Franz Schubert, Franz Liszt, and pieces Mr. Margulis transcribed for solo piano by Dmitry Shostakovich. Mr. Margulis is internationally recognized for his consummate virtuosity and compellingly communicative performances. "His playing gave me the most enthralling insight into the fascinating, mystical world of Alexander Scriabin, said a reviewer from Das Orchester, Berlin, Germany, and The Washington Post applauded his "titanic reserves of sheer power" and his "effortless spontaneity."
An active performer around the world stage, Mr. Margulis' orchestral appearances include performances with the Russian National Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Charles Dutoit, the Südwestrundfunk Orchestra, the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Venezuela, the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Prague Symphony Orchestra. He has played in numerous festivals, including the Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival, the Berliner Festwochen at Berlin Philharmonic Hall, the Verbier, the BSI, and the Sommets du Classique Festivals in Switzerland, the Argerich-Beppu Music Festival in Japan, and the Salzburger Festspiele in Austria. Margulis won prizes in more than a dozen international competitions, including Busoni in Italy and Guardian in Ireland. He is also a recipient of the esteemed Pro Europa prize awarded by the European Foundation for Culture.
Margulis is the artistic director of the Fulbright Concerto Competition, an international contest for pianists in the US, and the executive director of the "International Piano Academy Freiburg", a summer master class and piano festival in Germany. Since 2008 Margulis is the inaugural holder of the Emily J. McAllister Endowed Professorship in Piano at the J.W. Fulbright College of the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
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