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PIANO FOUR-HAND DUET CONCERT: MILES GRABER AND AMY ZANROSSO

Piano four hands is a type of piano duet involving two players playing the same piano simultaneously. For this concert, Miles Graber and Amy Zanrosso will play PCAs superb Steinway grand piano together, performing an assortment of pieces by six well-known Austrian, French, and German composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Ligeti, Brahms, Satie, Ravel, Dvoák, and Schubert. This is truly the essence of perfect collaboration two people happily sharing the eighty-eight keys of a single piano to smoothly produce about seventy minutes of first-rate musical entertainment. Please do not miss this rare opportunity to experience a very special evening!

AMY ZANROSSO's playing has been hailed as expressive, magnetic and masterful but since no one at the New York Times has said this, she's not allowed to put it in quotes. Thanks to her attentive and industrious Italian immigrant mom, piano lessons started at the age of 6 and by the age of 15, Amy had made the decision to make music her life.
As a soloist, Amy is addicted to the thrill of performing with orchestra. Since 2016, concerto repertoire, similar to chamber music but on steroids, has forced her to push her limits, helping make her into the confident and electrifying player she always hoped to be. She has appeared as soloist with the Santa Rosa Symphony, the Symphony of the Kootenays, the Russian Chamber Orchestra, the Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra, Symphony of the Redwoods and the Kensington Symphony Orchestra. Her intense love of chamber music has led her to more fully admire and explore her favorite composers while sharing the experience with countless inspiring, dedicated players and appreciative audiences.
Like performing, Amy finds teaching to be a highly rewarding part of a musicians life. She is a faculty member and chamber music coach at the Pre-College Academy of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music as well as at The Nueva School in Hillsborough, CA. She is constantly fueled by her fantastically inspiring students and enjoys forcing her favorite composers on them as well as telling them what to do. Amy is looking forward to all the superb music, musicians, students and enthusiastic audiences that will come her way in the future. Many thanks to Beethoven and Brahms for inspiring her to come this far she wouldn't change a thing. For more information, please visit www.amyzanrosso.com.

MILES GRABER received his musical training at the Juilliard School. He has performed with numerous artists, including Sarah Chang, Cho-Liang Lin, Camilla Wicks, Axel Strauss, Mimi Stillman, Paula Robison, Zuill Bailey, Judith LeClair, Frederica von Stade, Christina Mok, Martha Aarons, and Lev Polyakin. Mr. Graber has been associated with such organizations as New Century Chamber Orchestra, Midsummer Mozart, Oakland Symphony, Berkeley Symphony, Santa Rosa Symphony, Oakland Lyric Opera, Berkeley Opera, Opera San Jose, and California Symphony. His accompanying posts have included the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the San Domenico Conservatory, the Irving M. Klein International String Competition, the Mondavi Young Artist Competition, and Northern California Flute Camp. He is a member of the Alcyone Ensemble, Mira Trio, MusicAEterna, the Graham-Graber-Rose Trio, the Sor Ensemble, and Trio Foss.