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Martin Berkofsky, the internationally-acclaimed American pianist, opens the 1995-96 season at the Theatre at Washington at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 10.
He plays two of the great 19th century piano sonatas, Brahm’s Sonata in F minor, Opus 5 and Liszt’s Sonata in B minor.
Both works were included in concerts given by Berkofsky earlier this year in Europe. Referring to the rarely-heard Brahms sonata, one newspaper review of a concert in Romania stated, “Berkofsky triumphed in this sonata with enormous elan,” Szabadsag. Another spoke of his “gigantic expressive strength...’dissolving’ from one moment to the next in the softest and most delicate pianissimo,” Adevarul. Writing of the performance of the Liszt sonata, Adevarul praised the “boiling turmoil next to divine poetry”
Bom in 1943, of Russian ancestry, Berkofsky was a child prodigy who appeared on national television
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