Miriam Brickman
The American pianist Miriam Brickman has attained international stature as
an artist of unusual creativity and range. As a soloist, she is acclaimed
for performances always “technically assured, sensitively nuanced and
poetically detailed” and her “impressive, clear, distinction
between many musical styles”(New York Times). She is also the
innovator of a unique program in which she has created dramatizations in the
original languages (French, Italian, German, Spanish and dialects) of the
literary sources which inspired the composers’ music, thus adding
another dimension to the musical performances itself. “Unmistakably
genuine fellow-feeling for poets and composers alike” wrote the
London Times , and “particularly sensifive to tone and detailed
verbal inflexion”. Miriam Brickman has continually explored the links
between music and the sister arts: the New York Times wrote of her
Lincoln Center recital: "It was indeed an unusual event to be greeted
by an exhibition of contemporary painting and sculpture related to the music
inside."
In addition, Ms. Brickman is active throughout the world as a chamber
musician, and is a soloist with many orchestras, including the Moscow
Philharmonic and the Brooklyn Philharmonic under the batons of Maxim
Shostakovich and Lukas Foss (respectively). She has performed in Town Hall,
Camegie Recital Hall, and Lincoln Center in New York; Wigmore Hall, St.
John’s Smith Square and the South Bank in London; the Great Hall the
Scriabin Museum and the Composers’ Union in Moscow; the Philharmonic
Recital Hall and the Belezelsky Belozirsky Palace in St. Petersburg; the
Old Stone Bell -Tower in Prague; and elsewhere in the USA, England, France,
Israel, India, the Czech Republic, Australia and New Zealand and Japan.
Her four Southeast Asian tours (endorsed by the United States Information
Service) included performances in Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore, and
Indonesia. She has broadcast on the BBC (London); on WQXR, WNYC,
WFUV, WEVD (New York); Radio Hong Kong; Radio Prague; Radio Moscow; and on
television internationally. Since 1991, she has been invited to Russia four
times (including St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Kostamuksha), for solo,
chamber, and orchestral concerts, including several concerts featuring the
music of the English composer Ronald Senator (her husband). Among the
numerous new works she has premiered, many have been composed especially for
her.
Miriam Brickman has been invited to give classical recitals on luxury cruise
ships all over the world, and to be musical director of classical music
cruises. She has made over 40 Trans-Atlantic crossings on the Queen
Elizabeth 2, and performs regularly for Princess Cruises.
Ms. Brickman’s discography contains examples of her piano and poetry
recitals, solo performances (including many works by modern American
composers), and chamber music. In addition she has been an Adjunct
assistant Professor in the City University; producer and music director in
many theaters including the Tappan Zee Playhouse (How to Succeed in
Business Without Really Trying with Rudy Vallee ); the Houseman Theater
in New York (Trotsky in New York ); the London Theater School ( A
LittleThreepenny Opera Cafe), producer and music director of a Noel
Coward production (A Mahvelous Pahty ), and music director of
Undone Divas , a comedy show with the opera singer Madelene Capelle.
Ms. Brickman is also a singer and actress.
