October 16, 2001
Contact: UCSC Ticket Office: 831.459.2159 (v/tdd)

UC Santa Cruz Arts & Lectures welcomes solo pianist Awadagin Pratt to the UC Santa Cruz Music Center Recital Hall.

CONTACT
Moon Rinaldo
UCSC Arts & Lectures
Publicity and Production Coordinator
831.459.4058
or
Michelle Witt
UCSC Arts & Lectures Director
831.459.3861

UCSC Arts & Lectures office:
Fax: 831.459.4521
E-mail: artslecs@cats.ucsc.edu
Web: events.ucsc.edu/artslecs

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AWADAGIN PRATT
Details
»Classical solo piano concert
»Saturday, November 3, 2001 at 8pm
»UCSC Music Center Recital Hall
»Admission: $25 General / $20 Students and Seniors with ID / $14 UCSC
Students with ID
»Tickets: UCSC Ticket Office: 831.459.2159 / On-Line: events.ucsc.edu/artslecs

Pratt plays with "not only the speed, power and accuracy, the rhythmic vitality and variety that are usually a young pianist's primary assets, but with a sense of texture and color that are the marks of a mature artist."-The Washington Post

UC Santa Cruz Arts & Lectures welcomes solo pianist Awadagin Pratt to the UC Santa Cruz Music Center Recital Hall on Saturday, November 3, 2001 at 8:00pm. Among the new generation of concert virtuosos, Pratt's musical insight and intensely involving performances have received tremendous audience response and press attention during the past several seasons and have heralded him as a rising star.

PROGRAM
Mr. Pratt's solo performance for Arts & Lectures includes:

Gibbons: The Italian Ground

J.S. Bach:
From The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080, Contrapunctus: No. 1
Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903

Beethoven: Sonata in A-flat Major, Op. 110

Liszt: Sonata in B minor

ARTIST INFORMATION
Described as "laid back" yet "dynamic" and as playing with "firepower" as well as "lyrical finesse," Awadagin Pratt garners enthusiastic responses from his audiences. Named one of the 50 Leaders of Tomorrow by Ebony magazine, Awadagin Pratt is the winner of the 1992 Naumburg International Piano Competition and a 1994 Avery Fisher Career Grant. Pratt has been featured on numerous national television programs including PBS's Live from the Kennedy Center: A Salute to Slava. Pratt has also performed twice at the White House at
the invitation of the former President and Mrs. Clinton. His numerous recitals throughout the U.S. include performances at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and Chicago's Orchestra Hall. His orchestral performances include appearances with the New York Philharmonic, Orchestra of St. Luke's, the Minnesota
Orchestra, the Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Atlanta, Baltimore, National, Detroit, Indianapolis, Seattle, Milwaukee, Cincinnati and New Jersey symphonies and the New York Chamber Symphony.

In 1993 Mr. Pratt signed an exclusive recording contract with Angel/EMI. His debut album, A Long Way From Normal, was released in 1994. His second recital album, an all-Beethoven Sonata disc, and a third album, Live from South Africa, were released in 1996 and 1997. His most recent CD was released in October, 1999 and features Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition", the Brahms "Variations on a Theme by Handel, Op.24" and his own transcription of Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue, BWV 582.

Tickets: Tickets for the Awadagin Pratt performance are available through the UC Santa Cruz Ticket Office (831-459-2159 / tickets@cats.ucsc.edu): $25 Adult, $20 Seniors and Students with ID, $14 UCSC Student with ID (Reserved Seating).

UC Santa Cruz Arts & Lectures is committed to presenting artists of
national and international reputation to Santa Cruz County and beyond.

The 2001-2002 Arts & Lectures Season presented in partnership with
the Santa Cruz Sentinel, KUSP 88.9FM, New Leaf Community Markets and
Continental/seaway inns

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