[Le Grand Tour: Paul Shaw Plays Caribbean Art Music; "Shaw completes
his Caribbean excursion with tributes to fellow Jamaican pianist and
composer Oswald Russell..."]
Paul Shaw performs Oswald Russell (3:19)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlG4LGaihok Uploaded by Cariclassical
on Jun 27, 2011Andante Moderato from Jamaican Dances by Oswald Russell performed by Paul Shaw at The College of The Bahamas
Nassau, Bahamas
November, 2010
Jamaican
pianist Paul Shaw has appeared in recital, chamber music and as a
soloist with orchestra on three continents, inspiring appreciative
audiences and music critics alike in Asia, Europe and the Americas. A
top prize-winner in the 1988 William Kapell International Piano
Competition and the 1986 Young Concert Artists International
Auditions, he has performed to high critical acclaim at prestigious
venues, including Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Beethovenhalle,
Hall of the Americas and the Marlboro Music Festival.
Born
in Falmouth, near Montego Bay, Jamaica, Mr. Shaw's interest in music
began with a toy piano his mother purchased at Woolworth's to teach
him everything she had memorized from observing her guardian, a
Kingston piano teacher, in secret. By age eight he was sight-reading
hymns for church services, and at sixteen he won the Howard Cooke
Award for Excellence in Music, Jamaica's highest classical music
award in the annual Festival of Arts competition. Subsequent advanced
studies, courtesy of the Jamaican Government, French Government, and
William Petschek, Maro Ajemian and Isabel Mason Scholarships, led to
a ten-year affiliation with noted American pianist William Masselos
and three degrees - Bachelor of Music, Master of Music, and Doctor of
Musical Arts - from New York's famed Juilliard School.
Among
Paul Shaw's many interests is an unbridled fascination with the
medium of television. In a two-fold effort to attract young audiences
and nurture upcoming talent in classical music, he performs an
innovative, multi-media piano recital program with color slide and
video accompaniment called Picturecital: Classical Music in Living
Color; he is also developing Piano Talent on Parade, a
showcase program for young pianists, which he will produce and host
on Cable Television. On compact disc, Shaw has recorded Live from
New York, it's Paul Shaw for Musika Records and James P.
Johnson's stride piano classic, Yamekraw for piano and
orchestra, on the Collins Classics label. As a leading exponent of
the piano music of the Caribbean, Mr. Shaw is currently engaged in a
multi-disc exploration of his musical heritage.
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