Upcoming Events

BMTG Presents Sunday Matinee Concert at Steinway Recital Hall
October 22, at 12:30 PM

The prestigious Michael Perelstein Memorial Discover Your Passion Scholarship Award, in the amount of $1500 was presented to Declan Keegan, student of Alicia Jonas. The young pianist will be performing in BMTG Student Concert in December 2015. Congratulations!!

St. Louis Area Music Teachers Association proudly presents, Alexander Peskanov, concert pianist, composer and master teacher, emigrated to the United States in 1973. A graduate of the Juilliard School,

Peskanov made his orchestral debut under the baton of Mstislav Rostropovich, and has since traveled the world performing, and spreading the great traditions of the Russian Piano School. The author's series of six books, "The Russian Technical Regimen for the Piano" and video series "In Search of Sound" share all the secrets of Russian piano technique including weight-produced sound, flying finger technique, and a wide range of exercises, practiced by Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and other piano giants of the Russian School.

Peskanov will also give a Master Class on Saturday, October 24th at Steinway Gallery from 09:30-11:30 a.m.

Congratulations to young pianist,
Melanie Richardson, student of Pervin Muradov-Dilbazi!

She has been chosen as an Honorable Mention Winner (Advanced Category) of the American Protégé International Competition of Romantic Music 2015.

The Winners’ Recital will be held on Saturday, March 19th at 1:00 PM at Carnegie/Weill Recital Hall.

The DiMenna Center
for Classical Music

Eastman Young Artists Piano Competition Winner Brian Le will be in concert, making his New York City debut as the ninth program of 5 @ 5 at DiMenna, a solo piano performance series curated by Mirian Conti. Le will perform music by Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Schumann, Bartok, Chopin, Ravel and Prokofiev. 17 year-old Brian Le, from Silver Springs, Maryland was First Prize winner of the 2015 Eastman School of Music Piano Competition. Previously, Le won first prize in the Ylda Novik Memorial Concerto Competition, in the 27th International Young Artist Piano Competition, and in the 2014 Music Teachers National Association Senior Piano Duet Competition. He received second prize in the 2014 International Institutes for Young Musicians International Piano Competition and the Lee University International Piano Competition. He has performed with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Charleston Symphony Orchestra and the Wintergreen Orchestra and presented solo recitals in such venues as the Kennedy Center Concert Hall and Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, Carnegie Hall's Weill Hall, Swarthout Recital Hall at the University of Kansas, and the Alden Theatre in McLean, Va. He studies with BMTG member, Nancy O’Neill Breth.