Chamber Players International Presents March 6 Gershwin & Friends Concert - Internationally Renowned Pianist Mirian Conti to Perform Gershwin Preludes, Waltzes and Other Spectacular Solo Works On Sunday, March 6 at 12 Noon, Chamber Players International's Musical Cuisine concert series presents a spectacular Gershwin & Friends concert of works for solo piano, performed by the internationally renowned pianist Mirian Conti at the deSeversky Conference Center, on the campus of New York Institute of Technology, Northern Boulevard at West Street in Old Westbury, New York. This champagne brunch and performance, hosted by the renowned musicologist and Gershwin scholar Dr. Alicia Zizzo, will celebrate and feature this great American composer's recently reconstructed piano music. Highlights will include Gershwin's preludes, waltzes and other of his original solo works, alongside selections by Chopin, Scriabin, Granados and others. Dr. Zizzo will discuss the relationships between these works. This unique program begins with a champagne brunch buffet at 12 noon followed by the concert at 1:30 PM. Admission is $60 per person with group rates available. For reservations (required) and information, contact Chamber Players International toll-free at 1 (877) 444-4488. Mirian Conti enjoys a growing 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/MConti.html. Musicologist and pianist Dr. Alicia Zizzo has been hailed for her groundbreaking work in publications on four continents. Working with the Library of Congress, Warner Bros. Publications, the Gershwin estate and leading Gershwin scholar, the late Edward Jablonski, Zizzo researched, studied and reconstructed the Gershwin's lost or forgotten classical solo piano manuscripts notated in his own hand. Warner Bros. Publications has published Zizzo's reconstructions of "Lullaby", "Blue Monday", "The Complete Seven Preludes", the "Annotated Rhapsody in Blue", "the "I Got Rhythm" Variations for piano solo and other previously unpublished Gershwin manuscripts for solo piano. A landmark in music scholarship and publication, these are the first new authentic editions of George Gershwin's classical compositions to be published in more than half a century. Read more about these publications at http://www.jamesarts.com/zizzo/AZ_GershwinElitism.htm. Chamber Players International is a major regional presenting and performing arts organization serving the entire New York metropolitan area. Its artistic mission is to bring chamber music and chamber orchestra performances of the highest artistic quality to audiences throughout the area with such world-renowned ensembles as the International Chamber Orchestra of Rome and New York core-ensemble members as violinists Mark Peskanov and Janet Sung, violist Toby Hoffman, cellist Nathaniel Rosen, clarinetist Charles Neidich and pianists Jeffrey Biegel, Mirian Conti and Gerald Robbins. Visit them online at http://www.chamberplayersinternational.com. Musical Cuisine is long established as a popular Long Island classical chamber music series. It has the unusual distinction of presenting world-class artists performing chamber music in an intimate and relaxed environment after a champagne brunch. Jeffrey James Arts Consulting Tel/Fax: 516-797-9166 Website: http://www.jamesarts.com