Performer
Amir Farid, Piano

Program
MOZART Adagio in B Minor, K. 540
STUART GREENBAUM Ice Man (US Premiere)
PROKOFIEV Toccata in D Minor, Op. 11
SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in B-flat Major, D. 960
ROBERT PATERSON Joy Ride

Amir Farid, winner of the 2006 Australian National Piano Award, is a US born Iranian-Australian who resides in both New York City and Melbourne, Australia. The performance includes Schubert’s Sonata in B-flat Major, D. 960 as well as the US Premiere of Ice Man by Australian composer Stuart Greenbaum, which is a musical representation of the experience of Aussie adventurer James Scott who was stranded in the Himalayan mountains for 43 days and somehow survived.