Pianist Shai Wosner to Appear on A Prarie Home Companion, 4/16

Pianist Shai Wosner will join Garrison Keillor and guests on A Prairie Home Companion, broadcast live from New York's Town Hall tomorrow, April 16 at 6:00 p.m. The program will feature regular contributors including the Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and vocal sound effect artist Fred Newman, Rich Dworsky and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest "News from Lake Wobegon." Blues, Folk, and Country music performer Tom Rush is also scheduled to appear. Mr. Wosner will perform Schumann's Nachtstücke No. 4, a Schubert Impromptu, and excerpts from Schubert's Six German Dances.

A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor is broadcast live nationwide on nearly 600 public radio stations and abroad on America One and the Armed Forces Networks in Europe and the Far East. An encore of tomorrow's performance will air Sunday, April 17 (check local listings for time), and the program will be available online Monday, April 18 at http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/.
Pianist Shai Wosner has attracted international recognition for his exceptional artistry, musical integrity, and creative insight. His performances of a broad-range of repertoire from Beethoven and Mozart to Schoenberg and Ligeti, as well as music by his contemporaries, communicates his imaginative programming and his intellectual curiosity. His debut recording, Brahms and Schoenberg, released last year explores the inner connections of the composers' musical languages and was called "inventively conceived and impressive" by The New York Times. Mr. Wosner's next solo album with works by Schubert incorporating elements of folk music will be released by Onyx in the fall of 2011. Mr. Wosner has appeared with numerous major orchestras in North America and Europe. His upcoming engagements include concerto performances with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in May and this summer he will appear at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and perform in recital and in chamber music concerts and at the Oregon Bach Festival, Chamber Music Northwest Portland, and at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival. Mr. Wosner is the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award. For further information about Mr. Wosner visit his website, www.shaiwosner.com.