Composer: BEETHOVEN; SCHUMANN

Tracks/ Timings: BEETHOVEN: Sonata in B-flat major, Op. 106 ("Hammerklavier") 47:40; SCHUMANN: Kinderszenen, Op. 15 Scenes from Childhood 20:56

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Fleur de Son continues the fine series of recordings documenting the artistry of Gabriel Chodos.
Gabriel Chodos has performed throughout the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Israel. He has been a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Aspen Chamber Symphony, the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra of Holland, and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. A winner of the Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York, Chodos also received a Fulbright Scholarship, Martha Baird Rockefeller grants, and an NEA Solo Recitalists Grant. He has given masterclasses and lecture-demonstrations at Yale University, Indiana University, the Rutgers Summerfest, the Chautauqua Festival, the Hochschule für Musik in Leipzig, and the Toho Gakuen School of Music and Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo. Chodos has performed at the 92nd Street Y, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, Symphony Hall, and the Library of Congress. In recent years his performances of works by Schubert, Chopin, and Brahms have been broadcast nationwide by National Public Radio. The Aspen Music Festival and School, where Chodos has been artist faculty since 1987, appointed him the second Simms Family Piano Faculty Chair for 2003–2004.