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THOMAS SCHULTZ has established a reputation both as an
interpreter of music from the classical tradition - particularly Bach, Mozart, Beethoven
and Schubert - and as a champion of 20th century music. His recent solo appearances have
included a recital devoted to the music of John Cage (1992), an all-Rzewski recital
(1994), a recording of works by Rzewski and Hyo-shin Na for Belgian Radio in Brussels, and
a program pairing Bachs Goldberg Variations with recent works by Korean,
Japanese and American composers performed in New York and San Francisco (1997-98). His
programs have also featured works by Schoenberg, Webern, Eisler, Boulez, Sockhausen,
Wolff, Feldman, Takahashi, Schnittke, Ustvolskaya, Boudewijn Buckinx and Walter
Zimmermann. Mr. Schultz has worked closely with such eminent composers as Cage, Feldman,
Wolff, Rzewski, Earle Brown and Elliott Carter (in performances of the Double Concerto
at the Colorado Music Festival and at Alice Tully Hall in New York) and is also active as
a chamber musician. He is pianist with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and
has performed with the Da Camera Society of Houston and Robert Crafts 20th Century
Classics Ensemble. His recording of Stravinskys Concerto for Two Solo Pianos
is on the MusicMasters label, and he can be heard in chamber works of Earle Brown on a
newly-released Newport Classics recording. Mr. Schultzs musical studies were with
Philip Lillestol, John Perry and Leonard Stein. He is a member of the piano faculty at
Stanford University. |
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