2009 College of Arts & Media Music Concert Series
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The Piano in Film
Featuring Professor Zoe Erisman
Saturday, March 14 • 7:30pm
King Center Concert Hall
FREE and open to the public
Sponsored by: Music & Entertainment Industry Studies Department, Faculty Performance Series
Please join pianist and professor Zoe Erisman, Howie Movshovitz, CPR film critic and and Dr. Peter Klem, former film critic and guest commentator in an evening of music and film. Excerpts from Five Easy Pieces (written by Carole Eastman and directed by Bob Rafelson); Vitus (written by Fredi M. Murer and Peter Luisi and directed by Fredi M. Murer); The Pianist (written by Wladyslaw Szpilman and Ronald Harwood and directed by Roman Polanski); Elvira Madigan (written by Noelle Gilmour and Johan Lindström Saxon and directed by Bo Winderberg); and, The Music Box (written by H. M. Walker and directed by James Parrott) will be screened. Ms Erisman will perform live on the piano with the films screened and the role of piano music in the films will be critiqued and discussed.
Zoe Erisman, pianist and composer, is a Professor at the University of Colorado Denver. Her concertizing career includes two European tours, two tours in China, and one tour to Russia as the Moscow Conservatory. She has also performed in Turkey, England (Wigmore Hall), Macedonia, and Mexico. She has performed chamber music with Pierre Fournier, Mischa Mischakoff, Josef Gingold and others. The Orion recording Zoe Erisman, pianist, plays Shostakovich was released in Japan, Israel, Europe and the U.S and received favorable reviews in Ovation and American Record Guide. One of her compositions, a Quintet for Bassoon and String Quartet, was performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington. The Kunming Symphony of China performed a retrospective of her orchestral and chamber compositions. Erisman’s work, Protests and Evocation for two pianos and violin, was premiered by Earl Carlyss (former Juilliard Quartet member), Ann Schein, and Erisman in 2007.
Dr. Peter Klem is a psychiatrist and former film critic for Westword. In addition to his work as a physician, Klem is a skilled pianist with whom Zoe Erisman has read many four-hand symphony scores. Peter Klem has participated in the Telluride Film Festival and other important film festivals.
Howie Movshovitz has been Colorado Public Radio’s film critic since 1976. He is the director of education and retrospective programming at the Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli, a joint program of the University of Colorado Denver and the Denver Film Society. Movshovitz hosts the Tattered Cover Free Classic Film Series, free monthly film screenings and discussions presented by Colorado Public Radio and the Starz FilmCenter.
Howie contributes to NPR’s Morning Edition, has written for the Denver Post and teaches at both the University of Colorado Denver and the Telluride Film Festival. He received a BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in English from CU Boulder.
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