Portrait of Franz Liszt

Great news for Oregon! The American Liszt Society has established a new chapter in the Northwest! Dr. Alexandre Dossin and Dr. Claire Wachter, members of the piano faculty at the University of Oregon, are serving as its President and Vice-President.

If you are interested in joining the American Liszt Society, please refer to our membership page.

Contact information for the Oregon chapter can be found on the contact page.

Current News

Alexandre Dossin to perform in 2010 Spring Festival

Alexandre Dossin will be performing Chopin's f minor concerto in the 2010 Spring Festival of the American Liszt Society. The flier is available to download.

Alexandre Dossin invited to perform in concert marathon

Alexandre Dossin has been invited by Tom Mastroianni, the president of the American Liszt Society, as one of only five representatives in the U.S. and Canada during the 2010-2011 marathon of concerts to be held at the Academia Santa Cecilia in Rome. The marathon of performances will be organized by renowned pianist Michele Campanella. All piano works by Franz Liszt will be performed live, with several concerts happening during 2010 and 2011. Other pianists from the U.S. are Boris Berman (Yale University), Luiz de Moura Castro (Hartford School), Ksenia Nosikova (University of Iowa), Ann Schein (New England Conservatory), and Valerie Tryon (Canada).

Alexandre Dossin returns from Kansas

The chapter president, Alexandre Dossin, just returned from Kansas after performing in the Gala Recital of the American Liszt Society Annual Festival, held at the University of Kansas.

Membership form available

The American Liszt Society membership form is now available on this web site. See the membership page for more details. If you are an OMTA member, please read this letter.

Priscilla Dantas visit a success

Photo of Priscilla Dantas

Priscilla Dantas' visit to our area, in a series of 6 recitals organized in part by the Oregon Chapter of the American Liszt Society, was a big success: almost $10,000 were raised and invested in a scholarship fund for Priscilla, to be used when she enrolls at the University of Oregon School of Music in the near future. By popular request, Priscilla will return to Eugene in July 2009 for another series of recitals.

Chapter received a Stanley B. Greenfield Award

Our chapter received a Stanley B. Greenfield Award that made possible the purchase of the complete set of recordings of Liszt’s piano music (58 vols., many of which are double CDs, for a total of a little under 100 CDs) recorded by pianist and musicologist Leslie Howard, president of the British Liszt Society. The complete series of CDs is already available at the University of Oregon Knight Library, Douglass Music Room. With this purchase, plus the ongoing purchases of the scores in the complete Liszt Edition (Editio Musica Budapest), and recent purchases of the complete book series "American Liszt Society Studies" our University and the Oregon Chapter of the American Liszt Society get on the forefront of Lisztian scholarship.

Alexandre Dossin Joins the Board

Our chapter president, Alexandre Dossin, just returned from Washington DC, where he performed at the American Liszt Society Festival and was elected a member of the Board of Directors of the American Liszt Society.

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