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Jamestown Community Piano Association
Recital 4/11/11

Svetlana Belsky & Jennifer Maxwell
Piano Duo

Suite, Op. 11 Sergei Rachmaninoff
I. Barcarolle (1873-1943)
II. Scherzo
III. Russian Song
IV. Waltz
V. Romance
VI. Slava (Glory)

Infernal cha-cha Igor Iwanek
(1981 - )
(Composed in 2010for the Belsky-Maxwell Piano Duo)

Three Movements from Petrouchka Igor Stravinsky
I. Russian Dance (1882-1971)
II. Petrouchka’s Room
III. The Shrovetide Fair
(In a special arrangement by the performers)

Svetlana Belsky & Jennifer Maxwell

Piano Duo

The Belsky-Maxwell Duo began in 2005, when they discovered – quite by accident – how remarkably well matched they are at the keyboard. Their artistic partnership commenced with a standing-room-only performance of Mozart’s Concerto in E-flat Major for Two Pianos with the University of Chicago Symphony Orchestra in January 2006. Since then, the two pianists have been presenting duo concerts throughout the Midwest, playing a repertoire the ranges from the great masters to newly commissioned works and earning a reputation as an exciting ensemble with particular audience rapport.

Svetlana Belsky is the Coordinator of Piano Studies at the University of Chicago Department of Music. Born in Kiev, Belsky grew up in Chicago. She holds a Bachelor and Master of Music from the Peabody Conservatory of Music and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the Manhattan School of Music. An active recitalist and chamber performer, Belsky also serves as an adjudicator at piano competitions and writes and lectures on various musical topics.

Jennifer Maxwell is currently working on a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree at Boston University. She received a Master of Music at the University of Louisville School of Music and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Iowa School of Music. Formerly with the University of Chicago Department of Music, Maxwell also worked for the Louisville Orchestra, was Artist/Coordinator of the Kentucky Center’s ArtsReach Louisville Piano Program, and taught piano at the University of Louisville.

The Duo’s recent CD, including the Rachmaninoff Suite, Op. 11, Stravinsky’s Three Movements from Petrouchka, and William White’s brand-new Desiderata, written especially for Belsky and Maxwell, is available on www.CDBaby.com.

Belsky and Maxwell invite audiences to see – and hear – what two women can do with one piano.