PIANIST MICHAEL CHERTOCK
fashioned a successful career as a piano soloist, collaborating with conductors such as Keith Lockhart, Jack Everly, Robert Bernhardt, John Morris Russell, Thomas Wilkins, Carmon DeLeone, and the late Erich Kunzel. His many orchestral appearances include solo performances with the Philadelphia Orchestra, l’Orchestre Symphonique du Montreal, the Toronto Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, the Naples Philharmonic, the Detroit Symphony, the Chattanooga Symphony, the Utah Symphony, the Oregon Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony, the Louiseville Orchestra and the Dayton Philharmonic.
REPERTOIRE HIGHLIGHTS
Messiaien's Turangalila-Symphony; Bernstein's Age of Anxiety; Daugherty's Tombeau de Liberace; Machover's Jeux Deux; Rachmaninoff concertos 1, 2 and 3; Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto #1 in b flat minor; Stravinsky Capriccio; Prokofiev concertos 1, 2 and 3; Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue, Rhapsody #2, Concerto in F; and Roger Davis' Piano Concerto in F.