To celebrate Russell Sherman's 90th birthday, renowned pianist Evren Ozel will perform a live concert at Isabella Steward Gardner Museum, on Sunday 11/29/2020, at 7:30 pm. Program: Bach, Beethoven, and Chopin. FREE admission. Donation appreciated. Sold Out.
Details at: http://www.chineseperformingarts.net/contents/season/20201129/index.html

Pianist Evren Ozel was the second prize at the 2020 U.S. National Chopin Competition, as well as the special prizes for Best Mazurkas and Best Polonaise. Other honors includes the recipient of the US Chopin Foundation Scholarship, the Young Arts Foundation scholar, first prize at the 2016 Boston Symphony Concerto Competition, second prize at the 2016 Thomas and Evon Cooper International Competition, and second prize as well as the Mozart and Chopin special prizes at the 2018 Dublin International Competition.
He has performed with orchestras such as the Cleveland Orchestra, Jacksonville Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, and Boston Pops. He has taken master classes from Andras Schiff, Richard Goode, Paul Lewis, and other notable artists.
An avid chamber musician, Ozel has performed as a guest with the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, and participated in Marlboro Music Festival and ChamberFest Cleveland. In the 2020-2021 season, he appears again with the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players and performs with NEXUS Chamber Music for Hayden’s Ferry Chamber Music Series in Tempe, AZ. Other concerts this season include solo recitals for the Paderewski Festival in Raleigh, NC, the U.S. Chopin Foundation in Miami, and the Gilmore’s Rising Stars Series in Kalamazoo, MI. Ozel of Minneapolis, MN studied piano with Paul Wirth, theory and composition with Sarah Miller, and conducting with Courtney Lewis. He currently studies at New England Conservatory and has been a student of Wha Kyung Byun since 2014.