In Concert At The
Tabernacle
Pianist David Crohan
Birthday Bash
Monday, July 11, 2011
8:00 p.m.
in support of
Freedom Guide Dogs
&
Massachusetts Military Heroes
Tickets $30 & $50
Available at the MVCMA Museum Shop
or
online via Paypal
One of the most versatile pianists performing today,
David Crohan crosses the traditional boundaries between classical and jazz music with an
ease and sophistication that is the envy of many of his colleagues. His performances have
aroused admiration all over the United States in audiences which have included such
distinguished people as President and Mrs. Clinton, Walter Cronkite, Lady Bird Johnson,
James Taylor, Carly Simon, Billy Joel and many others. In 1990, he was privileged to
entertain Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy on the occasion of her 100th birthday.
David Crohan's musical talent announced itself early when he began, at age three, to play
popular tunes he heard. Blind from birth, he received his early education at the Perkins
School for the Blind in Boston where his study of classical music was encouraged. In his
teens, he became a pupil of Avis Charbonnel who was herself a pupil of the great Liszt
Pupil Theodor Leschetitsky, and following his graduation from Perkins he attended New
England Conservatory of Music where he was awarded the Artist's Diploma and Master of
Music Degrees. Solo recitals, chamber music performances and concerto appearances with
symphony orchestras followed.
All the while, David maintained a strong interest in playing jazz as well and the result
has been an extraordinarily fluent ability to cross styles as only a few musicians (Andre
Previn is one notable example) have been able to do. He began making music in the summer's
on Martha's Vineyard in 1964, and in 1978 opened David's Island House which rapidly became
a magnet for music lovers who came to hear David's fascinating performances of both
classical and jazz repertoire.
More info on the charities this concert
supports is avalable at the links below
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