STAMFORD, CT - A last minute cancellation due to illness by the Kwon sisters will bring pianist Benjamin Hochman back to the Treetops Chamber Music Society for its season opening concert on September 25, in Stamford. Since his first appearance at Treetops, Hochman has concertized with some of the top orchestras in the world, including the New York Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony, and this year won the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. The program at Treetops includes MOZART Sonata in C minor, K. 457; DEBUSSY Selections from Études, Books 1 and 2 (No. 5, “pour les Octaves”; No. 10, “pour les Sonorités opposées”; No. 11, “pour les Arpèges composées”; No. 12, “pour les Accords”; DAVID LUGWIG Five Bagatelles (commissioned by the 92nd Street Y, New York); CHOPIN Barcarolle in F-sharp Major, Op. 60; Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17, No. 4; Mazurka in D Major, Op. 33, No. 2; Mazurka in C-sharp minor, Op. 50, No. 3; Polonaise-Fantasie in A-flat Major, Op. 61.
Treetops CMS presents an art exhibit at each one of its concerts. On September 25, an art exhibit by Lauren Cotton will be on display at Treetops. A free reception will follow the concert, allowing concertgoers to enjoy the artwork and to meet the artists.
PIANIST BENJAMIN HOCHMAN
Winner of 2011’s prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, pianist Benjamin Hochman has achieved widespread acclaim for his effortless and thoughtful performances as an accomplished orchestral soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. After his successful recital debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he became a strong musical presence in New York through his concerts with the New York Philharmonic and the American Symphony Orchestra, his Carnegie Hall debut with the Israel Philharmonic and appearances at the 92nd Street Y. Mr. Hochman has performed with the Chicago, Pittsburgh, American, Cincinnati, Houston Symphony and Istanbul State Orchestras, the Seattle, San Francisco, Vancouver, New Jersey and Portland Symphonies, the New York String Orchestra, Prague Philharmonia and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Canada under eminent conductors such as Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Leon Botstein, Nir Kabaretti, Jaime Laredo, Jun Märkl, Daniel Meyer, Arthur Post, Lucas Richman, Bramwell Tovey, Kaspar Zehnder and Pinchas Zukerman. He has appeared in his native Israel with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Tel Aviv Soloists, the Raanana and Jerusalem Symphonies, and has joined conductor Pinchas Zukerman and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a Mozart Piano Concerto project with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.
ARTIST LAUREN COTTON
Cotton has exhibited solo at both the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Art’s Constance S. & Robert J. Hennessey Space in Wilmington Delaware and Temple University’s Temple Gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has also exhibited in numerous group shows including at the Woven Fiber Art House in West Chester Pennsylvania and Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Lauren Cotton of Fairfield Connecticut holds an MFA from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and a BFA from Moore College of Art & Design. She is currently an Adjunct Professor of Interior Design and Architecture at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh – Online Division. Cotton is also lead designer and co-owner of The Cotton Press in Fairfield Connecticut, a textile design/children’s wearable company.
Place and its architectural space are the defining factors in Lauren Cotton’s sculptures and installations. “With each new environment,” states the artist, “my works’ form, color and composition alter and expose the location’s architectural framework as being an additive of both physiological and psychological possibilities.”
Concert at 4:00 PM on Sunday, September 25, 2011, at The Treetops Studio, 359 Merriebrook Ln. (off Westover Rd.), in Stamford, CT. Tickets are $25 for subscribers; single tickets are $40; discounts for students and families are available. For more information, please call (203) 979-6052, or log on to www.treetopscms.org.
