Thursday's Concert features Max Lifchitz

Thursday evening's 7 p.m. concert in the Beaudoin Theatre in Foy Hall features Max Lifchitz, graduate of the Juilliard School and Harvard University, winner of the International Gaudeamus Competition for Performers of Twentieth Century Music (Holland, 1976) after which he was called a "composer of brilliant imagination and a stunning, ultra-sensitive pianist." Lifchitz taught a UAlbany, Columbia University and the Manhattan School of Music. For his recordings (for which he received Grammy nominations) open this Amazon.com link.

Maestro Lifchitz will play Beethoven's Piano Concerto no. I accompanied by the Siena Chamber Orchestra conducted by Siena 's own Paul Konye.