Math Institute To Sponsor Pianist Robert Taub July 8 In Park City

Math Institute To Sponsor Pianist Robert Taub July 8 In Park City

Pianist Robert Taub will perform on July 8 at 7:30 p.m. at the new St. Mary’s Church, Highway 224 and White Pine Canyon Road in Park City.

Taub’s program will include works by Chopin, Liszt, and Beethoven.

An internationally acclaimed leader in the new generation of virtuoso pianists, Taub has performed throughout Europe, the United States, the Far East, and Latin America. His repertoire in recital and with leading orchestras embraces music from the Classical era to the present, and he has collaborated with several American composers to create their music.

Taub’s recordings have been selected as “critic’s favorite” by such publications as Newsweek, the New York Times, Ovation, and Fanfare. As concert soloist, he has performed with the Utah Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Munich Philharmonic, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic, among many other orchestras.
He held the position of Artist-in-Residence at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J., from 1994 to 2001. While at the Institute, Taub performed and recorded (on Vox) the complete cycle of Beethoven Piano Sonatas; portions of every program were subsequently aired nationwide on NPR’s “Performance Today.” His book, Playing the Beethoven Piano Sonatas, was released in 2002 by Amadeus Press. The concert is sponsored by the IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute, a program of the Institute for Advanced Study. Seeking to serve and advance the mathematical community, IAS/PCMI is a unique program designed to foster interaction among the practitioners of mathematics research and mathematics education.

The major activity of the IAS/PCMI is a three-week summer session, held this year in Park City June 29-July 19, during which there are separate programs for high school teachers, undergraduate faculty, research mathematicians, mathematics education researchers, and undergraduate and graduate students. Participants will focus on the topic of Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations.

Special guests will include Jim Carlson and Hugo Rossi, professors of mathematics at the University of Utah. Professor Deborah Ball, University of Michigan, will lead a week-long series of classes for Park City 5th graders on the theory of number; a group of mathematics educators and researchers will observe and critique. PCMI will also host 16 participants from eight diverse countries at the 3rd Annual International Seminar on Mathematics Education: Bridging Policy and Practice.

The IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute receives major funding from the National Science Foundation.
Admission to the concert is free of charge, but tickets are required. To reserve tickets, call the IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute office after June 27 at (435) 649-7100, ext. 2536.