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Michael Sellers Michael Sellers is an internationally acclaimed pianist who has presented premieres of many new works, among them Touches by Leonard Bernstein, a number of which were written for and dedicated to him. His annual tours have taken him to most of the countries of Western Europe, South America, throughout the United States and Asia, and have included concerts in some of the most important halls such as Edinburgh’s Queen’s Hall, London’s Wigmore Hall and Vienna’s Brahmssaal that have won for him enthusiastic audiences, re-engagements and critical raves. His recordings for Orion Records under the auspices of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation have received wide recognition and great acclaim, including a “Recording of Special Merit” accolade from Stereo Review. He has recorded widely for radio in Europe and the US. In the fall of 1999 he gave a highly successful European tour where he played concerts in Italy, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland and gave master classes in Italy and Poland. Several of Mr. Sellers’ concerts were filmed for television. High points were a recital in the Liszt Muzeum where Mr. Sellers played in Liszt’s private concert hall immediately adjacent to the composer’s last apartment in Budapest and a private concert at Zelazowa Wola in the home where Chopin was born. One of the accolades he earned was: “He played Chopin in a truly Polish style with wonderful colors and nuances.” Mr. Sellers is the founder and executive director of The William Kapell Piano Foundation for Contemporary Music and Musicians, which commissions composers to write new works for the piano. Besides teaching in his own private studio, he is on the faculties of Mount St. Mary’s College and the Southern California Conservatory of Music. He has just completed a successful fifty-concert world tour on four continents that included his 22nd European tour last November. O1C Performances: Michael Sellers Michael Sellers |
