From a Chronicle music review by Charles Ward:
The University of Houston's International Piano Festival remains the city's main celebration of the piano recital. This year's event was sterling.
The discovery was the Swiss-born, American-raised and -trained Gilles Vonsattel. A prolific winner of contests and prizes, the tall, lanky musician had a special quality Sunday afternoon in the Moores Opera House: an utter ease, fluidity and calm amid the most technically challenging music. Of the three recitalists, he alone mesmerized for minutes on end.
His program ended up being all French. He had scheduled three short works by the Swiss Frank Martin but had no time to prepare them after a freak accident.
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