Alan Murray, pianist / Studio Hollywood

Performance Video Recordings can be found on tabs marked *

CURRENT SEASON & UPCOMING EVENTS (Spring 2020 - Spring 2021):

- Debut season of the Westchester Chamber Soloists, Westchester's premier chamber orchestra:

Beethoven: The 5 Piano Concertos & Choral Fantasia / visit www.WestchesterChamberSoloists.com)

- MOZART - THE PIANO CONCERTOS presented in 21 installments & 7 Full-Length Concerts (Alan Murray, piano)

Part 1 of Arista International's "2020 Live-At-Home" Concert Series (May - July)

(see 'Mozart Cycle 2020' tab for complete details; video recordings posted for all 21 Piano Concertos)

Performed live on stage and with pre-recorded orchestras, with Commentary on the Life & Music of W. A. Mozart

Concert No. 1 - Nos. 5, 14 & 21 Concert No. 4 - Nos. 9, 17 & 24

Concert No. 2 - Nos. 6, 15 & 22 Concert No. 5 - Nos. 11, 18 & 25

Concert No. 3 - Nos. 8, 16 & 23 Concert No. 6 - Nos. 12, 19 & 26

Concert No. 7 - Nos. 13, 20 & 27

- NOW: BEETHOVEN - THE 5 PIANO CONCERTOS & CHORAL FANTASIA (Alan Murray, piano)

Part 2 of Arista International's "2020 Live-At-Home" Concert Series (Aug - Nov) (* links on Beethoven 2020 tab)

Performed live, with Commentary on the Life & Music of L. van Beethoven

Aug 23 - Fantasia for Piano, Chorus & Orchestra* Oct 30 - Piano Concerto No. 2

Sep 13 - Piano Concerto No. 4* Nov 15 - Piano Concerto No. 3

Oct 18 - Piano Concerto No. 1 Nov 29 - Piano Concerto No. 5 ("Emperor")

NOTE: DUE TO ONGOING SYSTEMIC HEALTH CONCERNS & VENUE CLOSINGS,

THE REMAINDER OF OUR ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED ON-STAGE 2020 PERFORMANCES

HAVE BEEN POSTPONED OR RECONFIGURED AS LIVE-STREAMS

- POSTPONED Sat, April 25: Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 1 / Westchester Chamber Soloists / Mid-Westchester JCC / Scarsdale, NY

- POSTPONED Sat, May 2: Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 5 (“Emperor”) / Immaculata Symphony Orchestra, Joseph Gehring / Malvern, PA

- POSTPONED Sat, June 6: RiverArts Music Tour 2020 - Solo, Duo, Trio, Quartet & Quintet Masterpieces / Studio-Hollywood, NY

- POSTPONED Sat, June 12: Dvorak - Piano Concerto / Newark (Del.) Symphony Orchestra, Simeone Tartaglione / Newark, DE

- POSTPONED Sun, June 13: Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 3 / Westchester Chamber Soloists / Purchase College, NY

- TENTATIVE December 2020: J.S. Bach - Goldberg Variations, Samuel Barber - Piano Sonata, Szymanowski - Variations Op. 10 recordings to be posted

- TENTATIVE Spring 2021 (dates & venues tba): Beethoven - The 5 Piano Concertos (Westchester Chamber Soloists)

for additional information, see Concertos tab or visit www.WestchesterChamberSoloists.com

RECENT EVENTS (2019/20):

- September 2020: Beethoven "Live-At-Home" Series - Piano Concerto No. 4 [Nos. 1 & 2 pending] (see Beethoven 2020 tab)

- August 2020: Beethoven "Live-At-Home" Series - Fantasia for Piano, Chorus & Orchestra (see Beethoven 2020 tab)

- July 2020: Mozart "2020 Live-At-Home" Series - The Piano Concertos: Nos. 24, 25, 26 & 27 (see Mozart Cycle 2020 tab)

- June 2020: Mozart "2020 Live-At-Home" Series - The Piano Concertos: Nos. 11, 12 & 13, 18, 20 & 22 (see Mozart Cycle 2020 tab)

- May 2020: Mozart "2020 Live-At-Home" Series - The Piano Concertos: Nos. 5, 6, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21 & 23 (see Mozart Cycle 2020 tab)

- Sun/Wed, March 8 & 11: Studio Hollywood again hosts the Yonkers Philharmonic's Annual Youth Concerto Competition

- Sun, March 8: Beethoven - Choral Fantasia & Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 19 / Westchester Chamber Soloists (see Concerto tab)

- Sat, February 29: Saint-Saëns - Piano Concerto No. 2 / Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Greater Washington DC, Dimitar Nikolov

- Sat, February 1: Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 2 / Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, Russell Ger (see Concerto tab)

- Sun, October 27, 2019: Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 3 / Yonkers Philharmonic Orchestra, Tong Chen (see Concerto tab)

- Jul - Oct 2019: 23-city tour of Ukraine (Kyiv, Odessa, Lviv), Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg, +7 Trans-Siberia) & China (Shanghai, Beijing, Xi'an, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, +6)

- Fri, August 16, 2019: Ravel - Piano Concerto in G major / International Musicians Academy Festival Orchestra, Ovidiu Marinescu (see Concerto tab)

- Fri, August 9, 2019: Scriabin - Piano Concerto / International Musicians Academy Festival Orchestra, Cheung Chau (see Concerto tab)

- Fri, June 7, 2019: Ravel - Piano Concerto for Left Hand & Liszt - Totentanz / Newark Symphony Orchestra, Simeone Tartaglione (see Concerto tab)

- Sat, June 2, 2019: RiverArts Music Tour 2019 - Duo & Trio Masterpieces for Violin, Cello & Piano (see RiverArts2019Tour tab)

- Sat, May 4, 2019: Rachmaninoff - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini / Immaculata Symphony Orchestra, Joseph Gehring (see Concerto tab)

- Sat, March 23, 2019: Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 4 / Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, Russell Ger (see Concerto tab)

Alan Murray has appeared extensively in solo and chamber music recitals and as concerto soloist with symphony orchestras in the US, Europe and Asia, and his most recent tours have taken him virtually all of the major metropolitan and culture centers of Eastern Europe (2018) and of Ukraine, Russia and China (2019). Mr. Murray performs under the auspices of Arista International Music Enterprises, based in New York.

The 2020 season marks his eighth consecutive as concerto soloist, spanning a repertoire of over 50 piano concertos (over 40 complete live concerto recordings available on this site), with recent season appearances featuring acclaimed performances of most of the great piano concertos of all time, including those by Bartók (No. 2), Beethoven (No. 4, Choral Fantasia), Brahms (Nos. 1 & 2), Chopin (Nos. 1 & 2), Liszt (Totentanz), Mozart (complete cycle), Prokofiev (Nos. 2 & 3), Ravel (Left Hand & G major), Rachmaninoff (Nos. 2 & 3, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini), Saint-Saëns (Nos. 2 & 4), Scriabin and Tchaikovsky (No. 1). His Spring-Summer 2020 current season performances include the recently completed performance cycle of Mozart's Piano Concertos (May through July) and the now ongoing cycle of Beethoven's 5 Piano Concertos & Choral Fantasia (August through October, in recognition of the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth); both initiated with the March 8 inaugural performance of the Westchester Chamber Soloists (link) chamber orchestra - for which Mr. Murray is founder and Executive & Artistic Director. An active and dedicated chamber musician, Mr. Murray's recent season performances have featured Beethoven's and Brahms' complete Sonatas for Violin & Piano and for Cello & Piano as well as duo and trio masterpieces by Arensky, Debussy, Franck, Grieg, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky and others. (Visit the Chamber Music and RiverArts Music Tour tabs for complete recording links, programs, and notes).

In prior seasons, Mr. Murray presented the Masters Series and Sunrise Series Concerts in the New York area, over 100 solo recital programs in total, comprising multiple performances of the cycles of piano music of Chopin, Schumann, Debussy, Ravel and J.S. Bach, as well as Beethoven’s 32 Piano Sonatas and Diabelli Variations and major works of Schubert, Brahms, Liszt, Albéniz (Iberia), Granados (Goyescas), Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev and Stravinsky. Mr. Murray also conceived and initiated Collectanea, a series of multi-media performances in collaboration with non-for-profit RiverArts.org and other distinguished artists, combining art/poetry/dance-inspired classical piano masterpieces with simultaneous on-stage illuminated displays of still art, live modern dance and poetry readings; the initial program comprised Bach-Busoni's Chaconne, Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit, Liszt's Vallée d'Obermann, and Granados' Goyescas. His current solo piano initiatives are focused on the major works of Scriabin, Prokofiev, Scarlatti, Brahms and several American and Eastern European composers. (Visit the Solo Performances and related tabs for Mr. Murray's solo recital series programs, notes and composer biographical information.)

A career professional in finance and risk management, prior to 2020 Mr. Murray was a long-term member of the Global Financial Institutions Group management team at leading credit ratings and research firm Moody’s Investors Service in New York, where he managed international client portfolios across the Americas, Bermuda, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions and had executive management responsibility for operations the Latin America region, prior to which he was a member of the corporate actuarial team at worldwide insurer American International Group. He resides in Westchester County, New York with his wife Amada, daughter Celia, and cavalier King Charles spaniel Lizzy, where they also own and operate a specialty bookstore, Galápagos Books. In addition to being founder and executive/artistic director of the Westchester Chamber Soloists orchestra, he is on the Board of Directors of the Fine Arts Orchestra Society, parent organization of the Yonkers Philharmonic Orchestra and its various related programs. Mr. Murray began his musical studies in the New York area with Frances Wazeter and Allen Weiss, and his long-time performance coach is Robert Preston, distinguished concert pianist, professional artistic photographer and chamber music collaborator with the very finest of his generation. Mr. Murray holds diplomas in concerto and chamber music performance from the International Musicians Academy in Europe and an academic degree in theoretical physics/cosmology (with minors in biology, chemistry and languages) from Cornell University, where he also received a special University Award for distinguished piano soloist.

Studio Hollywood, based in the Rivertowns area of lower Westchester County, named for the street on which it's located, and just a 15-minute drive or short scenic train ride from Manhattan, is a modern multi-purpose performance, rehearsal and recording space. Set in idyllic natural surroundings with ample natural lighting, the studio features magnificent and carefully maintained vintage Steinway D (concert grand) rosewood and Steinway B flame-mahogany pianos, as well as 850 sq ft (37'x23') of sound-insulated and illuminated studio space with high ceilings, beautiful natural hardwood flooring and trim, and comfortable seating for up to 50 guests, or approximately 30 musicians.

The studio opens up to the surrounding stone-terraced gardens, fish pond and gazebo, and is wheelchair-accessibile from the street. Since inception in 2010, Studio Hollywood has hosted over 100 musical and multi-media events and is available on a privately-negotiated basis for use by visiting artists and performers. Additional detail on the studio facilities, including seating capacity and charts, is available here on The Studio tab.