Iranian of the Day

On Monday, September 24, 2007, pianist Soheil Nasseri will give a solo recital in New York at Weill Recital Hall featuring works by Beethoven and Schumann, in addition to a world première by Haskell Small. The New Yorker has called pianist Soheil Nasseri “one of New York’s most prolific recitalists.” Since the fall of 2001, the 28-year-old has performed seventeen completely different solo recital programs in New York, all without repeating a single piece: twelve at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, and five at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center. These concerts included twenty premières of contemporary works in addition to the first 27 of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas, a part of Mr. Nasseri’s pledge to perform all of Beethoven’s works involving piano—including the chamber music and lieder—by the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth in 2020 >>>