The Belsky-Maxwell Duo began in 2005, when these colleagues and friends discovered – quite by accident – how remarkably well matched they are at the keyboard. Their artistic partnership commenced conspicuously with a standing-room-only performance of Mozart’s glorious Concerto in E-flat Major for Two Pianos with the University of Chicago Symphony Orchestra in January 2006, in celebration of Mozart’s 250th birthday. Since then, the two pianists have been presenting duo concerts throughout the Midwest, playing repertoire ranging from the great masters to newly commissioned works, earning a reputation as a unique and exciting new ensemble with particular audience rapport.
Recent and upcoming performances include Live From WFMT of Chicago’s Classical 98.7 FM Radio, the prestigious Music in the Loft Series (famed for hosting the region’s most promising young artists), the Mostly Music Series of Northeastern Illinois University, the annual Music Institute of Chicago Duo Piano Festival, the Southern Illinois Music Festival, the PianoForte Great Pianists Series, Schubertiade Chicago, and CUBE Chicago Contemporary Music Ensemble; concerto appearances with the Southern Illinois Symphony under the baton of Maestro Edward Benyas; and recital and master class engagements as featured artists at the Illinois State Music Teachers Association Convention, the University of Wisconsin,...
The Belsky-Maxwell Duo began in 2005, when these colleagues and friends discovered – quite by accident – how remarkably well matched they are at the keyboard. Their artistic partnership commenced conspicuously with a standing-room-only performance of Mozart’s glorious Concerto in E-flat Major for Two Pianos with the University of Chicago Symphony Orchestra in January 2006, in celebration of Mozart’s 250th birthday. Since then, the two pianists have been presenting duo concerts throughout the Midwest, playing repertoire ranging from the great masters to newly commissioned works, earning a reputation as a unique and exciting new ensemble with particular audience rapport.
Recent and upcoming performances include Live From WFMT of Chicago’s Classical 98.7 FM Radio, the prestigious Music in the Loft Series (famed for hosting the region’s most promising young artists), the Mostly Music Series of Northeastern Illinois University, the annual Music Institute of Chicago Duo Piano Festival, the Southern Illinois Music Festival, the PianoForte Great Pianists Series, Schubertiade Chicago, and CUBE Chicago Contemporary Music Ensemble; concerto appearances with the Southern Illinois Symphony under the baton of Maestro Edward Benyas; and recital and master class engagements as featured artists at the Illinois State Music Teachers Association Convention, the University of Wisconsin, University of Illinois, Wheaton College, Winona State University, Illinois Central College, Cardinal Stritch University, Moody Bible Institute, Western Illinois University, and many more. The highlight of 2010 will be the Belsky-Maxwell Duo’s official debut in Carnegie Hall, followed by other New York performances. Concerts in the Boston area will begin in 2011.
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.
Praised for “how artistically attuned they were to each other . . . they simultaneously moved from the serene to the staccato, from the merely fast to the positively furious, always at precisely the same time” (Hyde Park Herald), Belsky and Maxwell invite audiences to see – and hear – what two women can do with one piano.
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Svetlana Belsky & Jennifer Maxwell
Piano duo
