Tuesday Matinees:
Ran Dank, Piano

The New York Times calls Israeli pianist Ran Dank “a player with technique, imagination, and powerhouse pianism.” Acclaimed for his brilliant technique and astonishing interpretive powers, Dank has performed at Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall, and appeared as soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Phoenix Symphony and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Lincoln Center with conductor Pinchas Zukerman. At Merkin he'll perform works by Chopin and Beethoven's "Hammerklavier," widely considered to be the composer's most difficult work for the piano.

A Juilliard graduate, Dank has won many international prizes including the Sander Buchman Memorial First Prize in the 2008-09 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, Second Prize in the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation 2010 Piano Competition and the Jerome L. Greene Foundation Prize.