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Music on Park Avenue: Evenings with Per Tengstrand

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Start date: 15 Jan 2015 06:00 PM
End date: 05 Feb 2015 09:30 PM
Street / Location: 58 Park Avenue @ 38th St.,
City / town: New York
Country: New York, USA
Organizer: Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America
Name: Kate Erickson
Email: press@amscan.org
Phone: 212-779-3587
Homepage: www.scandinaviahouse.org

Thursday, January 15, 7 p.m.
Thursday, February 5, 8 p.m.

Series continues spring 2015
$25, $20/ASF members

Swedish pianist and artistic director Per Tengstrand – now in his fifth season of musical programming at Scandinavia House – performs a series of concerts with distinguished guest musicians. The series highlights the repertoire of Scandinavian chamber music and its composers. The 2015 Music on Park Avenue concert series is supported in part by a generous grant from The Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation.

Markings & Music – In Celebration of Dag Hammarskjöld
with H.E. Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson & Per Tengstrand
January 15

The Beethoven Sonatas: The Moonlight
February 5

Tengstrand also hosts a pre-concert talk 45 minutes prior to the start of this concert.

About Per Tengstrand
Per Tengstrand (b. 1968, Växjö) is a Swedish pianist and artistic director of Music on Park Avenue: Evenings with Pianist Per Tengstrand at Scandinavia House. He began playing the piano at six years old and entered the Malmö Academy of Music at age 16, studying under Hans Pålsson. In 1985 Tengstrand was accepted at the Conservatoire de Paris in the class of Dominique Merlet. He continued private studies with Dominique Weber and Romuald Sztern to prepare for international piano competitions. Tengstrand has received numerous honors and awards, and recent career highlights include performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major during Neeme Järvi’s final subscription concerts with the New Jersey Philharmonic; performances with the National Symphony Orchestra at Wolf Trap; the Residentie der Leonard Slatkin; and the Madison Symphony Orchestra, under Edo de Waart. Tengstrand has recorded the complete cycle of Beethoven sonatas for his Mindfeel label.

Tengstrand makes his home in Princeton, New Jersey with his wife and collaborator, pianist Sha-shan Sun.

About Jan Eliasson
H.E. Mr. Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, was born in Gothenburg, Sweden. He graduated from the Swedish Naval Academy in 1962 and earned a Master's degree in Economics and Business Administration in 1965. Eliasson also served as the Special Envoy of the U.N. Secretary-General for Darfur, president of the 60th session of the U.N. General Assembly and as Sweden's Ambassador to the U.S. Eliasson was appointed Foreign Minister of Sweden and served as Sweden's State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Sweden's Ambassador to the U.N. and Secretary-General's Personal Representative for Iran/Iraq.