"Piano USA 1919" | Phillip Bush, Piano

Piano USA 1919 by Phillip Bush will offer a snapshot of the myriad styles of keyboard music being written by American composers: new American piano music of 100 years ago. The program presents a somewhat fanciful idea of what a concert of contemporary American piano music might have looked like in 1919.

Chosen by Chicago Classical Review for the Top 10 Classical Concerts of the year in Chicago, Bush’s recital will feature the works by Arthur Foote (1853-1937), Charles Griffes (1884-1920), Leo Ornstein (1895-2002). Marion Bauer (1882-1955), Henry Cowell (1897-1965), and the monumental Piano Sonata No.2 “ Concord” by Charles Ives (1874-1954).

See Piano USA 1919 on Febraury 8, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. in the Music Building Room 101. Bush will also work with UF piano students in a masterclass on February 9, 2019 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Music Building Room 101. The masterclass is also open for public and free of charge.

About the Artist

Acclaimed as "a pianist of poetry, elegance, and power" (American Record Guide),  "a pianist of exceptional, cherishable finesse" (Los Angeles Times), and "one of those rare pianists who combine structural intelligence with a hundred color gradations" (Village Voice), Phillip Bush has established a performing career over the past three decades that is noted for its remarkable versatility and eclecticism, with a repertoire extending from the 16th century to the 21st. Since the launch of his career upon winning the American Pianists Association Fellowship Award and subsequent New York recital debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1984, Mr. Bush has appeared as recitalist throughout North America as well as in Europe, Asia and the Caribbean. His Carnegie Hall concerto debut with Oliver Knussen and the London Sinfonietta was hailed by the New York Times for its "impressive last-minute heroics," as he substituted for an ailing Peter Serkin on short notice in concerti by Stravinsky and Alexander Goehr. Mr. Bush has also appeared as soloist with the Osaka Century Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony, Houston Symphony and a number of other orchestras, in repertoire ranging from the Beethoven concerti to the American premiere of Michael Nyman’s Concerto for Harpsichord.

Mr. Bush is a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory, where he studied with Leon Fleisher. From 2000 to 2004, Mr. Bush taught piano and chamber music at the University of Michigan, and he has also served as Visiting Faculty at the University of North Carolina. Since 2012 Phillip Bush has been a member of the piano and chamber music faculty at the University of South Carolina School of Music.

Address

435 Newell Dr.
Gainesville

Phone

352-392-0223

Website

Music Building Room 101 (MUB 101) Website