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For Immediate Release Contact: Leah Ammon, (408) 961-5814

February 15, 2013 lammon@montalvoarts.org

Natasha Paremski Comes Home

Gifted young pianist returns to the South Bay for dream recital at Montalvo

Flawless technique and unbeatable energy

BBC Music Magazine

A young pianist of prodigious technique and

striking stage presence. Washington Post

SARATOGA, Calif. The Montalvo Arts Center Piano

Masters Series continues with yet another performance

by a remarkable musician: Russian-born, Fremont-

raised Natasha Paremski will perform on Sunday,

March 3, at 7:30pm. Ticketswhich begin at $40 for

the general public, $36 for Montalvo members, and $15

for students with IDare available at montalvoarts.org

and through the Box Office at 408-961-5858 (M-F,

11am-4pm). With this concert, Montalvo contines its

mission to bring diverse, world-class talent to South Bay

audiences.

For Paremski, the engagement at Montalvo is something of a homecoming as well as the fulfillment of a

long-cherished fantasy. When I was a child, I spent countless weekends visiting the Montalvo Arts Center

with my family for concerts and hikes, she said. I only ever dreamed Id someday be able to perform

there. What a joy it is to be able to finally realize this dream, and with a program that I hold so near and

dear to my heart: I'll be playing Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor (The Tempest), Chopin's

Scherzo No. 3 in C sharp minor, and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.

Only 25 years old, Natasha Paremski has already established herself as a major pianistic talent. She is hailed

by critics both in this country and abroad for her musical sensibility, impecable technique, and electrifying

showmanship. Her growing list of awards includes the 2010 Classical Recording Foundations Young Artist

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of the Year, the 2007 Prix Montblanc, the 2006 Gilmore Young Artist Award, top prize in the 2002 Bronislaw

Kaper Awards sponsored by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and top prize in the Young Artists in Carnegie

Hall 2000 International Piano Festival.

Paremski has been fascinated by the piano almost as long as

she has been able to speak. As a toddler, she spent hours sittingat the piano in her familys Moscow apartment picking out

tunes on the keyboard. To me, it was a fun toy that made all

these beautiful sounds, Paremski recalled. "My mom hated it. I

didn't have a musical ear at age 2." Impressed by her innate

affinity for the instrument, her parents enrolled her in formal

music instruction at age four. She studied with Nina Malikova at

the Andreyev School of Music.

In 1995, her family immigrated to the United States, eventually

settling in Fremont, California. Paremski continued her studies

at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and made her

professional dbut at age nine with the El Camino Youth

Symphony. At the age of fifteen, she debuted with the Los

Angeles Philharmonic and recorded two discs on the Bel Air Music Label with the Moscow Philharmonic

Orchestra under Dmitry Yablonsky. The following year, she went off to study in New York with Pavlina

Dokovska at Mannes College of Music, from which she graduated in 2007.

As her career has blossomed, Paremski has toured on both sides of the Atlantic, performing as a soloist

with some of the worlds most distinguished orchestras. In North America, these include the Toronto

Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Houston Symphony, Berkeley Symphony, Dallas

Symphony, New York Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall. In Europe and Asia, these include the Royal Scottish

National Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan. She

has also given recitals at Londons Wigmore Hall, the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, the Schloss Elmau andVerbier festivals, and on the Rising Stars Series of Gilmore and Ravinia.

Paremskis accomplishments extend beyond realm of classical music and the formal concert hall. For the

past five years, she has enjoyed a collaborative relationship with rocker Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler,

who recruited her for a theater project about the lives of Robert and Clara Schumann. This project came to

fruition in 2010 with a performance at the Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center: Paremski embodied the

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spirit of Clara Schumann while pianist Jeremy Denk embodied Robert. The performance was later released

on DVD. Additionally, in 2008, Paremski was featured in a major two-part film for BBC Television on the

life and work of Tchaikovsky, shot on location in St. Petersburg, also to result of a partnership with Sting

and Styler. That same year, Paremski was the featured pianist in choreographer Benjamin Millepieds Danse

Concertantes at New Yorks Joyce Theatre.

A passionate advocate for new music, Paremski includes in her repetoire compositions by John Corigliano

and Fred Hersch. In 2012, she played the New York premiere of Herschs Variations on a Theme by

Tchaikovsky, which he composed specifically for her. Last November, in addition to appearing in WQXR's

Beethoven Marathon, she released her first solo album, a collection of sonatas by Brahms, Prokofiev and

Kahane. It debuted at number nine on the Billboard classical chart.

NATASHA PAREMSKI, SOLO PIANO

What: Recital by prodigiously talented pianist, Natasha Paremski

When: Sunday, March 3, 2013, 7:30 p.m.

Where: Carriage House Theater at Montalvo Arts Center, 15400 Montalvo Road, Saratoga

Admission: General: $45/$40 | Members: $40/$36. Tickets available through the Montalvo Box Office,

Monday-Friday, 10am4 pm at (408) 961-5858 and on www.montalvoarts.org.

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Montalvo Arts Center is an oasis of culture and nature whose mission is to create and present arts of all

types, nurture artists, and use our historic Villa, buildings, and grounds in innovative ways that engage

people in the creative process. Located in Silicon Valley's Saratoga hills, Montalvo occupies a

Mediterranean-style Villa, built in 1912 by Senator James Duval Phelan, surrounded by 175 stunning acres,

including the campus of our international Lucas Artists Residency Program. Senator Phelan bequeathed the

villa and grounds to the people of California for the encouragement of art, music, literature and

architecture, a mandate that Montalvo has carried forward ever since its founding. For more information

about Montalvo Arts Center, call (408) 961-5800 or visit www.montalvoarts.org.