Gershwin Live
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Track List
Concerto in F
1st Movement: Allegro
2nd Movement: Andante con moto
3rd Movement: Allegro agitato
Variations on "I Got Rhythm"
Rhapsody in Blue
Encore: Root Beer Rag
Mineria (Mexico City Orchestra conducted by Herrera De La Fuente
David Syme made his performance debut at age fourteen with his high school orchestra in the Beethoven First Concerto and when he was eighteen played the Rachmaninoff Second with the Detroit Symphony (with whom he has subsequently appeared on eight occasions). After initial studies in Detroit, he worked with Ozan Marsh at the University of Arizona and with Jorge Bolet at Indiana University where he also served as his teaching assistant. Further study followed with Sascha Gorodnitzki at the Juilliard School.
Mr. Syme has concertized throughout the United States and in Scotland, England, Belgium, Holland, France, Italy, Poland, Russia, Germany Yugoslavia, Spain, Canada and Mexico. He commands a vast repertoire and is as convincing in Bach, Mozart or Beethoven as in Liszt or Rachmaninoff, but he is perhaps best known for his stunning renditions of the 19th-century Romantics, particularly Chopin.
In the Chopin International Piano Competition in 1975, he was selected to perform at Chopin's birthplace (Zelazowa Wola) and the Polish press reported that "the most thunderous and well-deserved applause of the entire splendid assembly was accorded to David Syme. Not in a very long time has there come forth such an outstanding artist whose knowledgeable playing has so taken by storm the rapt attention of the public."
Jame Roy of Broadcast Music International (BMI) had this to say about Syme's recording of the Chopin Concerto No.1: "His performance is the closest I have heard in technique, style and expression to the legendary interpretations of such masters of the past as Josef Hoffman, Arthur Rubinstein and Alfred Cortot."