Event Listing - Music
Sat Mar 1

Carmel Music Society presents

Michael Roll, piano


Tel. 831.625.9938
Website
$12 - $27
Box Office: 831.625.9938

Location
Date and Time
Sunset Center
On San Carlos near 9th
Carmel-By-The-Sea, CA 93921
cross street: near 9th
district: Carmel-By-The-Sea

Sat Mar 1 (8pm)

Description
Michael Roll is one of Britain’s most distinguished pianists. He was born in England, son of Viennese parents, and he began to play at a very early age, studying with the legendary Dame Fanny Waterman and made his concert debut with the City of Birmingham Orchestra at the age of ten and his Royal Festival Hall debut at twelve playing the Schumann Concerto with Sir
Malcolm Sargent conducting. His success at the first Leeds International Piano Competition in 1963, where he won first prize at the age of 17 led to the start of a career which has taken him all over the world, appearing with such conductors as Barbirolli, Boulez, Giulini, Gergiev, Haitink, Leinsdorf, Masur, Previn, Sanderling and Sawallisch.

He has toured Japan with the BBC Symphony, Europe with the Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool and English Chamber Orchestras, appeared at the first Hong Kong Festival with the London Philharmonic and at the Edinburgh Festival with the London Symphony. He made his American debut in 1974 with the Boston Symphony and Sir Colin Davis, appearing in Boston and New York.

Engagements in the 2007/08 season include Schumann’s Piano Concerto on a major tour of Germany (Konzerthaus Dortmund, Düsseldorf Tonhalle, Munich Philharmonic Hall, Great Hall of Radio Berlin-Brandenburg), Mozart’s Double Concerto with Elisabeth Leonskaja as partner in Hamburg, a recital tour of the U.S. West Coast, and appearances in Denmark, Ireland, Norway, Romania, and the U.K.