The Program

All-Bach Program
Bach: Partita in B-flat Major, BWV 825
Bach: Partita in C Minor, BWV 826
Bach: Partita in A Minor, BWV 827
Bach: Partita in D Major, BWV 828
Bach: Partita in G Major, BWV 829
Bach: Partita in E Minor, BWV 830

About the Artist

Winner of the 2000 Astral National Auditions in Philadelphia, Andrius Zlabys has since gone on to appear with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony and the Cleveland Orchestra.  He has collaborated with a number of eminent musicians, including Gidon Kremer, Hilary Hahn and Yuri Bashmet, and he received a Grammy nomination (along with Kremer) for his 2003 recording of the Enescu Quintet.

Mr. Zlabys began piano studies at the age of six in his native Lithuania and studied with Laimute Jakniuniene at the Ciurlionis Art School for eleven years.  Upon graduation from Ciurlionis at sixteen, he spent a year at the Interlochen Arts Academy studying piano with Victoria Mushkatkol and composition with Joseph DeFazio.  He then entered the Curtis Institute of Music in 1995 as a student of Seymour Lipkin, graduating in 2000.

For more information on Andrius Zlabys, including audio and video clips, visit his website.