CLASSICAL ENCOUNTERS Foundation presents Steven Vanhauwaert, Pianist

Hailed by the LA Times for ‘impressive clarity, sense of structure and monster technique”, Steven has garnered a wide array of accolades some of which are: Maurice Lefranc award, Rotary Prize, Galiot Prize, USC Concerto Competition, and in October 2004, he won the Grand Prize at the LA International Liszt Competition, which enabled him to tour the US and Hungary. Steven performs frequently throughout Europe, the USA, and China both as a soloist and in Chamber Music Groups. His performances are broadcast regularly on K-MZT, K-CSN, K-USC, WHKB, W-UOT, K-UAT and KLARA. Steven studied in Brussels at the Royal Conservatory with Boyan Vodenitcharov. He continued his musical development in Los Angeles with professors Kevin Fitz-Gerald, James Bonn and John Perry at the USC Thornton School of Music. He has appeared in major venues with the Pacific Symphony, the Flemish Symphony, the USC Symphony, the Bryan Symphony, Collegium Instrumentale, the Concord Jazz Ensemble, the Auburn Symphony, the Eastern Sierra Chamber Orchestra, the Peninsula Symphony and Prima la Musica, amongst others. His China solo debut tour in June 2010, culminating at the National Center of Performing Arts in Beijing, was received with great critical acclaim and lead to an immediate invitation for the next season. As a member of the Felici Piano Trio, he has given recitals and Masterclasses all over the US. Steven has been a frequent guest in festivals: Jacaranda, the Festival of Flanders, the Eastern Sierra Music Festival, Musik Zentral, the Malibu Coast Music Festival, the Sundays-at-Two series, the Sundays Live Series, the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music and Euterpe plus many others. He has been invited to perform in major concert venues such as the Concertgebouw Brugge, the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Bovard Auditorium in Los Angeles, the Singel of Antwerp, the Great Hall of the Brussels Conservatory, the Great Hall of the Budapest Liszt Conservatory, as well as numerous other prestigious venues in Bulgaria, Hungary, China, the US, the Netherlands, France, Canada, Austria and Spain.

Program: BEETHOVEN – Sonata Opus 90/CEZAR FRANCK – Prelude, Choral et Fugue/FRANZ LISZT – Vallee D’Obermann and Dante Sonata