Virtuoso Pianist Michael Gurt

The program will include Liszt's B Minor Sonata, Op. 23, Etude-tableau in E-Flat Minor by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Prelude in D Major, the Etude in D# Minor by Alexander Scriabin and Sergei Prokoviev's Sonata No. 7 in B-Flat Major. 

Virtuoso Pianist Michael Gurt holds degrees from the University of Michigan and the Juilliard School and won First Prize in the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition in 1982 along with prizes at international competitions in Pretoria, South Africa, and Sydney, Australia. He has performed as soloist with the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Utah Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, the Memphis Symphony, the Capetown Symphony, the China National Symphony Orchestra, and the Natal Philharmonic Orchestra in Durban, South Africa.

He has presented solo concerts at Alice Tully Hall and Weill Recital Hall (Carnegie Hall) in New York, Ambassador Auditorium in Los Angeles, Orchestra Hall in Detroit, City Hall in Hong Kong, the Victorian Arts Center in Melbourne, Australia, Baxter Hall in Capetown, South Africa, and the Attaturk Cultural Center in Istanbul, Turkey.

Michael Gurt's many chamber music collaborations include working with the Takacs String Quartet, the Cassatt String Quartet, and Cellist Astrid Schween, and performing at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music in Townsville, Queensland. He has served on the juries of both the Gina Bachauer International and the New Orleans International Piano Competitions, and he has recorded on the Naxos, Centaur, and Redwood labels.