News Release

Note: For Lupu’s bio and photos, see end of release.

Veteran pianist Radu Lupu
to perform classical greats
 
CHAPEL HILL – Pianist Radu Lupu will perform works by Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy and Schubert on Feb. 2 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Carolina Performing Arts will present the 8 p.m. concert in the Beasley-Curtis Auditorium of Memorial Hall.

Known for his interpretations of Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart and Schubert, Lupu has performed their works and those of other major composers for 50 years. He has performed with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic and most other major orchestras in the United States and Europe.

Lupu has played on more than 20 recordings by labels including CBS, EMI and Teldec. He won a Grammy Award in 1996 for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra) for “Schubert: Piano Sonatas (B Flat Major and A Major).”

Lupu’s recordings on Decca have included the Beethoven Piano Concertos with the Israel Philharmonic and Zubin Mehta. He also has recorded the complete Mozart violin and piano sonatas and numerous solo Beethoven recordings.

Born in Romania in l945, Lupu began studying piano at age 6. He made his public debut with a program of his own music at l2. In l96l, he received a scholarship to the Moscow State Conservatory, where he won first prize in three competitions. In 1989, the Italian Critics’ Association awarded Lupu its Abbiati prize.

The Britain-based Gramophone magazine called Lupu’s talent “the kind of which legends are made.”

Tickets for his Carolina performance, $30-$60, are available online at www.carolinaperformingarts.org, by calling (919) 843-3333 or from the Memorial Hall Box Office on Cameron Avenue, open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. Tickets for Carolina students are $10. Tickets also are on sale for other performances. For more information, visit www.carolinaperformingarts.org.

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Note: For a media kit and downloadable photos, visit www.carolinaperformingarts.org/media.

Carolina Performing Arts contact: Don Smith, (919) 843-3119, donsmith@email.unc.edu; Jennifer Warner, (919) 966-3834, jenniferwarner@unc.edu