Associate Professor of Historical Performance David Breitman Featured in Kennedy Center Concert February 9 By Marci Janas '91
			Associate Professor of Historical Performance David Breitman will perform Beethoven's Choral Fantasy with the Washington Bach Consort, conducted by J. Reilly Lewis (BMus'67), Friday evening, February 9, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The performance begins at 8:30 PM in Concert Hall. Breitman is equally at home with the fortepiano and the modern piano, and his growing discography reflects that versatility. Most recently, he recorded a major new song cycle by the Cuban-American composer Jorge Martin with baritone Sanford Sylvan, after giving the 65-minute work its New York premiere at Carnegie Recital Hall in May 2000. This was the fourth recital record with Sylvan, following "Beloved that Pilgrimage" (20th century American song cycles), Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin, and an all-Fauré disc. "Pilgrimage" and the Fauré were nominated for Grammy awards. Also in 2000, he released Mozart's fortepiano-violin sonatas with Jean François Rivest, a four-CD set on Amberola. Breitman has also been involved in another large and unusual project: a Beethoven piano sonata cycle on original instruments, shared among seven fortepianists. This series, originally presented in eight concerts at New York's Merkin Hall in 1994 and recorded for CLAVES, was repeated in 2000 at the Accademia Bartolomeo Cristofori in Florence.
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