The Annual Mark Anderson/Tamriko Siprashvili
Two-Piano Benefit Concert

Mark and Tamriko present an evening of splendid classical piano every year at their two-piano benefit concert for Pleasanton Cultural Arts Council's Arts in the Schools program. This year's concert program will include works by Rachmaninoff, Kreisler, Mozart, Debussy and Bolcom.

The concert will take place at 8:00 p.m. on February 16, 2008, at the Amador Theater, 1155 Santa Rita Rd., Pleasanton, CA. Admission is $15, $20 and $25 and the Amador Theater box office will be open from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. each day for phone and walk-up ticket sales. Tickets can also be purchased online at www.ci.pleasanton.ca.us/community/arts/civic-arts.html or call 925-931-3444.

Concert Program

• Suite No. 2 Op. 17 — Rachmaninoff
• Liebesleid-Kreisler — Liebesfreud (arr. Guy Maier)
• Intermission
• Eine Kleine Nachtmusik — Mozart (arr. Richard Sim)
• Lindaraja — Debussy
• The Garden of Eden: 4 Rags for Two Pianos — William Bolcom
     1. Old Adam
     2. The Eternal Feminine
     3. The Serpent's Kiss
     4. Through Eden's Gates

Biographies of the Artists

Mark Anderson and Tamriko Siprashvili gave their first recital as a duo in January 1994. They have since appeared as a duo throughout the United States and Europe. They have been exploring the two-piano and four-hand repertoire since their meeting in 1990 and have become sought after as a duo-piano team and as soloists for two-piano concerto performances by orchestras in the United States and abroad.

Tamriko Siprashvili

After receiving first prize at the 1985 Robert Schumann International Piano Competition in Germany, Tamriko Siprashvili toured extensively throughout Germany, Italy, Eastern Europe and various countries throughout the former Soviet Union. In Moscow, she has appeared in recital at the Great Hall and Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. She has performed with various ensembles including the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Toscanini Orchestra in Italy and the Tbilisi Philharmonic, among others. She has recorded piano music by Rachmaninoff on XCP records (France). Tamriko began piano studies at the age of three. At six she entered the Special Music School for gifted children in Tbilisi. In 1985, she received her diploma from the Moscow Conservatory of Music.

Mark Anderson

After successes at the 1993 Leeds (U.K.) and 1994 William Kapell (U.S.) International Piano Competitions, Mark Anderson toured much of the world as recitalist and soloist. He has performed in Japan, throughout the former Soviet Union, Europe and Great Britain, Ireland and North America. He is invited regularly to perform as soloist with orchestras throughout the U.S. and abroad. Closer to home, Mr. Anderson performs with a variety of Bay Area ensembles such as San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and The San Jose Chamber Players.

Mark began his studies at the age of five with Eugene Masluk in Livermore, California and received his formative training with Trula Whelan and Aiko Onishi. Having been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 1987, Mark finished his formal training at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England under Ryszard Bakst and concluded his formal studies with Benjamin Kaplan in London. Mark records exclusively with Nimbus records and has released five commercial CDs to date, all of which have met with considerable critical acclaim.

Recordings

Mark and Tamriko recorded their first commercial compact disc in Moscow in the Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in January 2004. Distributed on the Nimbus Records label, it is available worldwide and has been met with critical acclaim. The disc includes a premiere recording of a two-piano arrangement of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Stravinsky's own arrangement of The Rite of Spring for two pianos. Mark and Tamriko plan on making three recordings over the next five years of the complete two-piano works of Stravinsky and Prokofiev, all on the Nimbus label.

The Anderson-Siprashvili Music Academy

Mark and Tamriko live in Pleasanton, California where they have recently opened the Anderson-Siprashvili Music Academy. They first met at the Leeds Piano Competition in England in 1990 and were married in California in January 1993. In spite of tremendous musical successes, their greatest accomplishment to date is their daughter, Nina, who was born on Mark's birthday in 1999.

For more information on the Anderson-Siprashvili Music Academy and its programs, visit www.asmusicacademy.com or call 925-462-5400.