Social - January 2004

Pianist returns to Lincolnton

Published January 16, 2004

By DIANE TURBYFILL, Staff Writer

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Music by pianist Dmitri Vorobiev will fill the Lincoln Cultural Center Performance Hall Sunday.

The award-winning musician returns to Lincolnton for the second time through the Friends of Music at Emmanuel Lutheran Church.

“Very rarely does someone this talented come here. I’m very pleased that we were able to get him two years in a row,” said Daniel Hannemann, music director at Emmanuel.

A native of Moscow, Russia, Vorobiev has studied at the School of Music and Moscow Music College of the Moscow State Conservatory, North Carolina School of the Arts and Manhattan School of Music.

He has won top honors in the Casagrande International Piano Competition in Italy, Busoni, Cincinnati World, Ibla Grand Prize, AMA Calabria and Alabama International Piano competitions.

Hannemann says Vorobiev will perform an ambitious program of pieces by Scarlatti, Chopin, Debussy and Rachmaninoff.

“He’s a very modest person — just electrifying playing. His program will be very interesting,” said Hannemann.

The performance will be Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Timken Performance Hall of the Lincoln Cultural Center. The event is free and open to the public.

For more information call 704-732-9055.

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