Internationally Renowned Pianist Alia Alhan in Recital at New York's Liederkranz Club - February 26 Program Features Works by Haydn, Schumann, Chopin, Debussy and Others Internationally renowned pianist Alia Alhan will be in concert on Saturday, February 26 - 8:00 PM at the Liederkranz Club, 6 East 87th Street in New York. She will be performing selections by Haydn, Schumann, Schubert, Chopin, Debussy, Scriabin, Prokofiev and two composers from her native Kazakhstan, Bakhtiyar Amanzhol and Adil Bestybaev. She will be joined in these last two selections by Kazakh folk instrumentalist Zhanna Kassenova. Tickets for this concert are $20, with discounts for students and seniors. For tickets and other information, please call 212-534-0880. Dinner is available at the club prior to the performance. Please call them at 212-534-0880 for reservations. Alia Alhan has performed in chamber music and solo recitals at the Almaty State Conservatory, and was featured as a soloist with the Kazakh State Philharmonic Orchestra. She holds graduate and post-graduate degrees from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, including studies with Leonid Zhivov and Gennady Cherkasov. Alia Alhan has traveled on international cultural exchange tours to Italy, Philippines, Singapore, Mali and Upper Volta. Ms. Alhan has performed both chamber music and solo recitals at the Isaac Stern Auditorium and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, CAMI Hall, Bruno Walter Auditorium at the Lincoln Center Library of Performing Arts and the Tolstoi Foundation. The Liederkranz Club was founded 131 years ago. Members have included President Theodore Roosevelt. Liederkranz Scholarship Award Winners have gone on to careers with the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Opera, and other leading opera houses throughout the world. Among their scholarship winners are Renee Fleming, Gene Boucher, Justino Diaz, Tatyana Troyanos, Maria Albanese, Batyah Godfrey and Dominic Cossa. Guest artists who have performed at the Liederkranz Club and with its Chorus include Jenny Lind, Ferrucio Busoni, Victor Herbert, Lilli Lehmann, Helen Traubel, Lauritz Melchior, and in recent years Martti Talvela and Lucine Amara. Visit them online at http://www.liederkranznycity.org/door/. Jeffrey James Arts Consulting Tel/Fax: 516-797-9166 Website: http://www.jamesarts.com