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Pianist Esther Budiardjo has received considerable acclaim from many of America's most respected music critics. Richard Dyer of the Boston Globe, who selected her Boston debut recital as "The Best of 1997," wrote, "Her playing summoned laughter and tears; made the mind work, the spirit soar." Of Ms. Budiardjo's New York debut performance in Lincoln Center, Harris Goldsmith of American Record Guide noted, "Her masterly account had a mature grandeur that placed it on the level of some of the greatest pianists in memory." In addition to winning first prize at the 1996 William Kapell International Piano Competition in Maryland, she was awarded top prizes at the 1993 Stravinsky Awards International Piano Competition in Illinois and both the 1998 and 2000 Palm Beach Invitational International Piano Competition in Florida.
During the 2000-01 season, Ms. Budiardjo will appear with the Omaha Symphony Orchestra, the South Carolina Philharmonic, and the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra (IL). In Boston, she will give solo recitals at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Harvard Musical Association. She will make concert tours of Japan, Austria, and Germany as well; in France and Italy she will perform Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 17 with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. In the season following, she will perform with the Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra and at the University of Rhode Island's Great Performances. In the 1999-2000 season, Ms. Budiardjo made recital appearances for the Frederic Chopin Society in St. Paul, the Washington Performing Arts Society's Hayes Piano Series at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts in Washington, DC, Rolfs Piano Series in Pensacola, and the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts in Chicago, among others. She has also performed at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City, with the Nashua Symphony Orchestra (NH), the Civic Symphony of Boston and the Cape Ann Symphony Orchestra. Highlights of her 1998-99 season included engagements at New York's National Arts Club, Greenville's Peace Center for the Performing Arts in South Carolina, le Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, with Boston's Longwood Symphony, and with the Belgian National Orchestra. Ms. Budiardjo's debut recording, released in January 1999 by Pro Piano Records, has garnered high praises for her interpretations of Mendelssohn's music. In December 1999, Pro Piano released her second recording, which features the music of Godowsky and Tansman. In prior seasons Ms. Budiardjo has given recitals in Alice Tully Hall in New York City, Jordan Hall for BankBoston Celebrity Series' Emerging Artist Series, the Phillips Collection and the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC, as well as concerto appearances with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Savannah Symphony and the LaCrosse Symphony (WI). She has also been heard on National Public Radio's Performance Today. Born in Jakarta, Indonesia, Ms. Budiardjo now resides in the Boston area, where she is currently completing her doctoral work at the New England Conservatory of Music. There she also received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees with Distinction in Performance as well as the Presidential Scholar Award. Her principal teachers have been Wha Kyung Byun, Russell Sherman and Lev Vlasenko. Her music festival participation includes the Steans Institute for Young Artists at the Ravinia Festival, Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara and the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. In October 1999, Ms. Budiardjo became a United States citizen. |
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