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Israeli pianist Roman Rabinovich, 23, is the winner of the 2008 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, and he has placed in a long list of other piano competitions. Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, he began his piano studies at the age of 6 with his mother, and later went on to the Curtis Institute, where he studied with Seymour Lipkin. At the moment, Rabinovich is pursuing his master’s degree at Juilliard, but he is taking time out for a visit to Buffalo. Rabinovich will be joining the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra next Friday and Nov. 14 to perform Mozart’s effervescent Piano Concerto No. 23. First, he will give a free solo recital at 3 p. m. Sunday in the Mary Seaton Room of Kleinhans Music Hall as part of the Buffalo Chamber Music Society’s Gift to the Community series. Rabinovich has planned an ambitious program. The main piece he will play is Moussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition,” a tour de force popular in the mid-20th century that is now coming back into fashion. He also will be playing four sonatas by Scarlatti, six preludes by Debussy and a piece by the contemporary composer Benjamin Yusupov, titled “Crossroads No. 2.” Tickets are not needed for Sunday’s recital. For information, call 462-4939. —Mary Kunz Goldman
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