Slovenia's Two Top Pianists To Perform At Merkin Concert Hall On June 26

NEW YORK (Merkin Concert Hall Announcement) - Bojan Gorisek and Milko Lazar, two of Slovenia's most celebrated musicians, will perform a two piano concert at Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center, Goodman House in New York on June 26th in celebration of the 15th anniversary of Slovene independence. Merkin Hall is at 129 West 67th Street in New York. Concert starts at 8 pm, tickets: $ 20, $15.

The pianists will perform music written by Milko Lazar, whose music is a crossover between contemporary chamber music, improvisation and jazz, and will also include a rare adaptation of Maurice Ravel's Bolero.

Milko Lazar is a composer, pianist, harpsichordist, keyboardist and saxophonist, working in the fields of classical and jazz music as a free-lance composer and musician. Mr. Lazar performed with many jazz groups he founded (Quatebriga, Štefbet Rifi, Milko Lazar Quartet) and with other well known jazz musicians (Maria Schneider, Herb Pomeroy, Peter Herbolzheimer, Mathias Ruegg etc.). His latest classical works have been performed with many international ensembles all over Europe and in such prestigious U.S. venues as Carnegie Hall in New York. Among the conductors of his orchestral works were Walter Proost, David de Villiers, Olari Elts, George Pehlivanian and Marko Letonja. Mr. Lazar recorded over 40 LPs and CDs with different groups and more then 10 solo projects.

Bojan Gorisek is well known around the world for recording the complete piano opus of Erik Satie for Blaricum Music Group (APC 101.391 - 10 CDs) which was rated among the best recordings ever made. Besides performing all over Europe, Mr. Gorisek often plays in the United States, Venezuela, Columbia, and China. He collaborated with Luciano Berio, Vinko Globokar, Jane Manning, Irena Grafenauer, John Edward Kelly, David Harman, Walter Proost, and others. In collaboration with Blaricum Music Group Mr. Gorisek also recorded 4 CDs of music by George Crumb (APC 101.301, APC 101.057) and the piano sonata 'Concord' by Charles Ives (APC 101.059). For various record companies in Slovenia he recorded the complete piano opuses of Marij Kogoj, Aldo Kumar, and Milko Lazar.