Argentinean Pianist Mirian Conti in Concert at Merkin Concert Hall on
June 15 - Featured Works Include Three World Premieres and Argentine
Piano Music

Argentinian pianist Mirian Conti will be in concert on Thursday, June
15, 2006 at 8 PM at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, 129 W.  67th
St. in Manhattan.

This performance will feature World Premieres of new works written
for Ms. Conti by Benjamin Lees and David Winkler as well as the World
Premiere of the solo piano version of Sonatina by Spanish master Ernesto
Halffter and works by Alexander Scriabin and Frederic Chopin.  The concert
will also celebrate the release of her new Albany Records CD Looking
South, with solo piano selections by Argentine composers Julian Aguirre
and Juan Jose Ramos.

Tickets for the June 15 concert are $15, $10 for seniors and students.
For tickets and other information, please contact the Merkin Concert
Hall box office at 212-501-3330 or visit them online at
http://www.ekcc.org/merkin.htm.

Mirian Conti enjoys a strong reputation as a musician whose performances
combine technical brilliance with striking originality and artistic
insight.  Stylistically assured in a wide range of repertoire, Ms. Conti
is considered a leading exponent of Spanish music; and her rare ability
to communicate passion and excitement when playing contemporary scores
has won the admiration of leading American and Argentine composers such
as Bowles, Broeders, Cohn, Diamond, Gould, Lees, Persichetti, Ramey,
White, Zyman, etc.  She premiered Lalo Schifrin's Piano Concerto No.2
at the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion in Los Angeles.  She was invited by
the French Cultural Center in Tangier, Morocco to perform a concert in
homage to Paul Bowles.  In recognition of her extraordinary talent, a
scholarship honoring Mirian Conti has been established at The Juilliard
School by the Edwin Bachman Estate.  In recognition of her extraordinary
talent, a scholarship honoring Mirian Conti has been established at The
Juilliard School by the Edwin Bachman Estate.  Visit her online at
http://www.concertartists.com/MC.html.

For press inquiries about Mirian Conti, please contact Jeffrey James
Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or [log in to unmask]

Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
Website: http://www.jamesarts.com