Chris Carson has performed works by which composer of 9 symphonies?
Chris Carson Chris Carson (born August 21, 1985) is an American pianist and composer native to San Antonio, Texas. Growing up in Houston, Texas, he attended High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and studied with Timothy Hester, a Juilliard graduate. Other teachers have included Abbey Simon, Ludmilla Lifson, and Victor Rosenbaum. Mr. Carson has been a very successful competitor, capturing many awards and top ratings in competitions throughout his career. He recently was the inaugural winner of the Pacifica Quartet Competition, and, in 2009, performed the Brahms piano quintet with the Grammy-award winning group. He has received first prize in numerous concerto competitions, and has appeared as a soloist with three orchestras over the past few years, most recently with Orchesterakademie in Germany in 2009, performing a repertoire of Beethoven, Liszt, Shostakovich, and Mendelssohn. Mr. Carson's performances have taken him to New York, Dallas, Chicago, Boston, Houston, Montreal and overseas to venues in Italy, France, and Germany. An active composer, Carson premiered his Fantasy for Piano in Italy in 2006 and is very involved in composing both sacred and secular music. Mr. Carson is also an active teacher in the Boston area, coaching both pianists and vocalists. He currently resides in Boston, where he attended Longy School of Music for his master's degree. He is now a music director, teacher, and freelancer, in addition to being the choral accompanist for the Belmont Public Schools, in Belmont, Massachusetts.
List of compositions by Gustav Mahler The musical compositions of Gustav Mahler (1860–1911) are almost exclusively in the genres of song and symphony. In his juvenile years he attempted to write opera and instrumental works; all that survives musically from those times is a single movement from a Piano Quartet from around 1876–78. From 1880 onwards Mahler was a professional conductor whose composing activities had to be fitted around concert and theatrical engagements. Nevertheless, over the next 30 years he produced nine complete symphonies and sketches for a tenth, several orchestral song cycles and many other songs with piano or orchestral accompaniment. Mahler's symphonies are generally on an expansive scale, requiring large forces in performance, and are among the longest in the concert repertoire.