Kulturzentrum Presents Beatrix Klein in Concert

Painist Beatrix Klein

Kulturzentrum, the ever-active Lebanese-German Association for the Promotion of Culture, is one group of people with a taste for refined arts that constantly organizes classical music concerts at AUB. Its latest offering was made on April 4, when it presented a concert by the award-winning pianist, Beatrix Klein, at Assembly Hall, which was repeated on April 5 at the Kulturzentrum Auditorium in Jounieh and on April 6 at the University of Balamand.

The concert at AUB lasted for almost one hour and consisted of four main musical intervals with pieces by German composer Ludwig Van Beethoven, Spanish composer Isaac Albeniz, Austrian pianist Johann Nepomuk Hummel, and the renowned Hungarian maestro Franz Liszt. The program began with Albeniz's three-piece Cantos de Espana Opera 232, followed by Beethoven's Opera 22 Sonata, which included an allegro, an adagio, a minuetto, and a rondo-allegretto. The second Beethoven piece performed was the turbulent Die Wut Uber Den Verlorenen Groschen. After a brief pause, Klein concluded the evening with an exquisite three-piece sonata by Johann Nepomuk Hummel and a brief extract from Guiseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto.

Klein is an accomplished international performer, and her sterling performance at Assembly Hall was not unexpected. She is the recipient of several awards and scholarships, among them the Jugend Musiziert Award in Berlin, the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now, and Villa Musica scholarships. She studied classical music with the most eminent professors in the field, namely Pavel Gililov, K. H. Kammerling, D. Bashkirov, and C. Helffer. After touring Germany, Holland, China, and Singapore as both soloist and chamber music pianist, Klein will perform in concert in Finland and South America in the summer of 2006.