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PRESS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Acclaimed Pianist/Chess Master to Appear in Concert at Settlement Music School PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - (February 7, 2003) Acclaimed pianist, music theorist, fortepianist and harpsichordist Matthew Bengtson will present an all-Szymanowski program on Thursday, February 13, 2003 at the Mary Louise Curtis Branch of the Settlement Music School at 416 Queen Street in Philadelphia, PA. The performance begins at 7 p.m. and is free. The program includes music for both solo piano and piano with violin. Mr. Bengtson will be joined by violinist Blanka Bednarz, a member of the Dickinson College Faculty. Please call 215-320-2600 for more information. Upcoming appearances by Mr. Bengtson include a recital at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. During late February and early March he and Ms. Bednarz will make a concert tour of Kansas performing the music of Szymanowski. A busy performer, Mr. Bengtson made his third recital appearance last December in Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall. He is a champion of rarely-performed music. He read a paper entitled “The Mazurkas of Karol Szymanowski” as a Lowens Award finalist at the Capital Chapter of The American Musicological Society. In 2002 he recorded commercially all of Szymanowski’s mazurkas on compact disc. A winner of numerous international and national piano awards and fellowships, Mr. Bengtson won the 2000 Otto R. Stahl Memorial Prize at Cornell University and was a Timothy Faron Award and Braverman Grant recipient at Harvard University. After graduating from Harvard, he attended Peabody Institute in Baltimore, MD where he earned his masters and doctoral degrees in piano performance and minored in harpsichord. Last summer he attended the École Américaine at Fontainebleau, where he studied a variety of French piano and chamber music and was awarded the Prix de la Ville de Fontainebleau for piano performance. Mr. Bengtson serves on the faculty of Settlement Music School in Philadelphia and the piano staff of the Curtis Institute of Music. He takes time out from a demanding schedule by competing in chess and golf. A FIDE master (FM) and National Master (NM), he competes internationally with some of the world’s finest chess masters and last summer won the Midland Open in England. He has also won several amateur golf tournaments and has a 3 handicap. to send e-mail to Matthew Bengtson. Copyright
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