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	Pianist Stephen Kovacevich - CM Artists New York
		Stephen Kovacevich has had a long and distinguished career as a concert pianist and is particularly renowned for his interpretations of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms.
		Abroad, Stephen Kovacevich regularly appears with the major orchestras in the UK and on the continent, at the most prestigious summer festivals including Verbier, Edinburgh and the Proms and in recital in London, Amsterdam, Paris, Cologne and Geneva.
		Kovacevich was recently featured in a six-concert series "Kovacevich, Beethoven and the Piano" which was produced in collaboration with the Harrods International Piano Series, the London Philharmonic and the South Bank Centre.
	www.cmartists.com /artists/stephen_kovacevich.htm (531 words)

	Stephen Kovacevich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stephen Kovacevich (born October 17, 1940), who has also been known as Stephen Bishop and Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich is an American classical pianist.
		Kovacevich was born in San Pedro, California to a Croatian father and an American mother.
		At the age of 18 he moved to London to study under Myra Hess on scholarship and has been a London resident since.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stephen_Kovacevich (142 words)

	RECITAL REVIEW: A Provocative Pianist, Not Always Inspiring By William Wellborn (Stephen Kovacevich, April 25, 1999)
		That was the challenge for Stephen Kovacevich for the second of his two concerts in one week at UC Berkeley's Hertz Hall last Sunday.
		Kovacevich's tonal variety is somewhat limited, ranging from an often exquisitely gossamer and delicate pianissimo to a rather clangorous and somewhat noisy forte.
		Kovacevich's playing of this most lyrical of all sonatas effectively captured the paradoxical elements crucial to any fine interpretation of Schubert, namely the juxtaposition of naïve simplicity with the darkest moments of metaphysical searching.
	www.sfcv.org /arts_revs/kovacevich_4_27_99.php (1015 words)

	Stephen Kovacevich and friends play excellent Mozart and Brahms, enjoyed by Malcolm Miller
		Exquisite sonorities and the meeting of artistic minds across two generations ensured a dramatic and enthralling climax to this year's Hampstead and Highgate Festival, a chamber concert of Mozart and Brahms given by 'Stephen Kovacevich and Friends'.
		Kovacevich's pearl-like touch, his incredible nuance of expression and tonal balance was well matched by the alert string playing.
		Kovacevich and Lawrence Powers were joined by the mezzo-soprano Yvonne Howard for the centrepiece of the evening, Brahms's Two Songs Op 91.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2003/05/kovacevich1.htm (383 words)

	Geometry.Net - Pianists: Kovacevich Stephen
		Stephen Kovacevich was born in Los Angeles and made his debut as a pianist at the age of 11.
		stephen kovacevich was born in Los Angeles in 1940and made his debut as a pianist at the age of 11.
		Stephen Kovacevich is the most superb specialist of Beethoven who is critiqued to have 'recreated Beethoven' brings his truly Beethoven works to Korea for his third concert.
	www4.geometry.net /detail/pianists/kovacevich_stephen.html (2528 words)

	Stephen Kovacevich Piano Recital
		Stephen Kovacevich is the most superb specialist of Beethoven who is critiqued to have 'recreated Beethoven' brings his truly Beethoven works to Korea for his third concert.
		Stephen Kovacevich’s concerto engagements worldwide include performances with the London, Los Angeles and Israel Philharmonic orchestras, and the Pittsburgh, Finnish Radio, Swedish Radio and Montreal Symphony orchestras.
		Stephen Kovacevich was born in Los Angeles and made his debut as a pianist at the age of 11.
	www.sac.or.kr /eng/lab2003/kovacevich (668 words)

	International Piano Archives at Maryland, UM Libraries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Stephen Kovacevich was born in San Pedro, CA.
		He initially performed as Stephen Bishop and, later, as Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich.
		In 1959, Kovacevich moved to London and began training under Dame Myra Hess.
	www.lib.umd.edu /PAL/IPAM/kovacevich.html (113 words)

	Classical Net Review - Maestrino - Kovacevich's Beethoven Sonatas
		As I compared the two, Kovacevich just seems to find more music in the notes, there is more happening in his performance.
		And this is the strength in Kovacevich's interpretations.
		Kovacevich seems to love playing Beethoven's Sonatas and he conveys that love in the attention to detail as in his delicate fingering like filigree on a wonderful tapestry.
	www.pair.com /lampson/music/recs/reviews/e/emi54599a.html (1104 words)

	Stephen Kovacevich @ Cadogan Hall, London : concert review
		This was due mostly to a slightly sluggish orchestral contribution, with tuning awry at the end of the slow movement and general ensemble in the tutti passages not always on the button.
		Kovacevich’s pianism contained much of the insight we have come to expect from him, the adoption of fast tempi keeping the music on its feet.
		Kovacevich spoke before the concert of the conundrum conductors face when choosing tempi for Beethoven, in particular the faster movements, and told of his admiration for Otto Klemperer's recorded legacy of the composer.
	www.musicomh.com /classical/cadogan-kovacevich-1_0307.htm (518 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		Stephen Kovacevich's long-anticipated recording of Beethoven's "Hammerklavier" Sonata grasps at the bar upon which the work's reference versions reside.
		Kovacevich bears down on the Scherzo's main theme with a heavy hand, yet he gives the Trio its ghostly due.
		I wouldn't mind Kovacevich's clipped militancy in the Fugue (somewhat in the Pollini-Gulda manner) if it were less monochromatic, but that may be partly due to the too-close-for-comfort sonics.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=7016 (375 words)

	Stephen Bishop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stephen Bishop (cave explorer), a 19th century African American cave explorer
		Stephen Bishop (musician), a late 20th century U.S. popular musician.
		This human name article is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that might otherwise share the same title, which is a person's or persons' name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stephen_Bishop (115 words)

	RECITAL REVIEW: Kovacevich's Negative Example By John McCarthy (Stephen Kovacevich, April 18, 1999)
		Pianist Stephen Kovacevich presented a recital at UC Berkeley's Hertz Hall last Sunday afternoon that revealed a musician with flamboyant style and uncompromisingly clear intentions.
		Kovacevich's severity with the opening statement was compelling in its intensity.
		The opening of the Adagio Molto was hauntingly beautiful but Kovacevich was inclined to an idiosyncratic disregard for the rhythmic structure of the music.
	www.sfcv.org /arts_revs/kovacevich_4_20_99.php (404 words)

	Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Conductor Autobiography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A native of Los Angeles, Stephen Kovacevich has had a long and distinguished career as a concert pianist and is particularly renowned for his interpretations of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms.
		Kovacevich's recent engagements in North America include appearances with the Chicago, Pittsburgh, Montreal, Houston, Detroit and Indianapolis symphonies; the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra; and recitals in Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Philadelphia, Toronto and New York's Metropolitan Museum.
		Kovacevich was recently featured in a six-concert series "Kovacevich, Beethoven and the Piano" which was produced in collaboration with the Harrods International Piano Series, the London Philharmonic and the South Bank Centre.
	www.vancouversymphony.ca /bio_page.cfm?CFConductorCode=SK (443 words)

	Artists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As a tribute to his interpretations of works of Beethoven, Stephen Kovacevich was recently featured in a six-concert project ‘Kovacevich, Beethoven and the Piano’.
		Stephen Kovacevich’s concerto engagements worldwide have included performances with the London, Los Angeles and Israel Philharmonic orchestras, and the Pittsburgh, Finnish Radio, Swedish Radio and Montreal Symphony orchestras.
		Stephen Kovacevich was born in Los Angeles and made his concert debut as a pianist at the age of 11.
	www.emiclassics.com /phpNewSite/artists/artists_bio.php?id=25 (494 words)

	New York Observer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kovacevich is the only American with an active career to be celebrated with not one but two volumes of recorded work.
		Kovacevich’s complete set of Beethoven sonatas, the EMI producer John Fraser calls the pianist “an artist of almost self-punishing honesty and integrity.” Judging from my first live experience of Mr.
		Kovacevich’s scaling of it on disc is a hair-raising tale of triumph over adversity), Schubert’s Sonata in B-Flat Major seems to traverse the whole of early 19th-century Central Europe, illuminated by the embers of the composer’s last days on earth.
	www.observer.com /printpage.asp?iid=12283&ic=Music (811 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Living / Arts / His pursuit of perfection exacts a heavy toll
		Earlier this year, Kovacevich experienced a crisis of confidence that, he says, brought him to his lowest point in two decades and nearly led him to give up performing.
		It was Kovacevich's fruitful partnership with Sir Colin Davis, BSO principal guest conductor in the 1970s, that produced the extraordinary series of concerto recordings for Philips that brought Kovacevich international fame: an acclaimed set of Beethoven, majestic Brahms, verdant Grieg and Schumann, and driving, edge-of-the seat Bartok.
		Kovacevich says his nervous sensibility was exacerbated by a recent illness.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2005/05/01/his_pursuit_of_perfection_exacts_a_heavy_toll (590 words)

	Classical Net Review - Beethoven - Piano Sonatas #26 & 29
		Stephen Kovacevich (then Stephen Bishop Kovacevich) didn't quite manage to record all 32 of Beethoven's piano sonatas when he was under contract to Philips Classics.
		Kovacevich seems to be telling us that, as the fingers struggle, so does the soul.
		Kovacevich's Beethoven cycle will be ranked among the best to come along in the past twenty years.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/e/emi57520a.html (395 words)

	Los Angeles Philharmonic Association - Performer Details
		STEPHEN KOVACEVICH was born in Los Angeles and made his debut at the age of 11.
		Kovacevich’s recent and upcoming engagements in North America include concerts with the Chicago, Pittsburgh, Montreal, and Detroit symphonies, and recitals in Chicago, San Francisco, Toronto, Vancouver and Philadelphia.
		Kovacevich records exclusively for EMI International and is currently recording the complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas.
	www.laphil.org /resources/performer_detail.cfm?id=675 (250 words)

	EMI Classics \| Biographies \| STEPHEN KOVACEVICH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Stephen Kovacevich was born in Los Angeles in 1940 and made his debut as a pianist at the age of 11.
		He has had a long and distinguished career as a concert pianist and is particularly noted for his radical interpretations of the classical repertoire.
		Stephen Kovacevich records exclusively for EMI Classics and is currently recording the complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas.
	www.emiclassics.com /artists/biogs/skob.html (436 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas [Box set]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Stephen Kovacevich says in his notes that "once something is as great as this music, you should be on your knees and be grateful that it exists".
		Kovacevich is a robust pianist, not given to sweetness of effect nor ingratiating indulgence.
		stephen kovacevich is such a brilliant pianist and i hope he does many more recordings ofbeethovens music in the future.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000DB55A (1262 words)

	Stephen Kovacevich - Reviews - Arts - Entertainment - theage.com.au (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Stephen Kovacevich, the soloist in Beethoven's Emperor Piano Concerto No. 5 a fortnight ago with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, gave just one solo recital in Melbourne on his latest Australian tour.
		While the artist gave an engrossing reading of each bagatelle, the most impressive sample of his carefully honed craft came in the third, a calm and splendidly shaped set of pages accomplished with sympathy and a compelling honesty of expression where the awkwardnesses were allowed to speak for themselves.
		If there was one individual characteristic of Kovacevich's interpretation that stays in the memory, it came in his fluent approach to the work's metre, a kind of insistent ease that maintained the punch of both the second movement march and the final boisterous explosion.
	www.theage.com.au /news/reviews/stephen-kovacevich/2005/09/18/1126981943050.html (450 words)

	.: Music For Galway - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kovacevich luxuriated in the extremes of the music: tossing off a gentle snatch of melody on the one hand, evoking the ferocity of the deaf Beethoven pounding on the piano on the other” New York Times
		One of the most distinguished pianists of our time, Stephen Kovacevich, returns to the Aula Maxima NUIG to perform on Thursday 23 February at 8 p.m..
		Kovacevich selected the original Galway Steinway Piano in 1981 and has performed in Galway several times since then.
	www.musicforgalway.ie /home.html (381 words)

	Press Release \| Houston Symphony
		PIANIST STEPHEN KOVACEVICH AND THE HOUSTON SYMPHONY SHIMMER IN GRAF AND SHOSTAKOVICH
		Stephen Kovacevich has had a long and distinguished career as a concert pianist.
		In addition to his solo work, Kovacevich enjoys good relations with orchestras as a conductor and by directing from the keyboard.
	www.houstonsymphony.org /about/press/detail.aspx?id=36 (221 words)

	Stephen Kovacevich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Stephen Kovacevich is a classical pianist with a radical style and rare humor that make his recordings of Beethoven's Bagatelles better and truer to the spirit of the works than any other performer's I have heard.
		Kovacevich now records exclusively for EMI, but the Bagatelles were recorded for Phillips, in 1975.
		To learn more about Stephen Kovacevich, visit his official online biography at EMI.
	www.sonic.net /~foggy/Leha/html/sk.html (124 words)

	Pianist Left His Heart in Berkeley / Kovacevich in town to teach and perform
		Kovacevich, 59, is back in his hometown of Berkeley to give two recitals, teach some classes at the university where he spent a year as an undergraduate and generally soak up the Bay Area atmosphere.
		In those days he was known as Stephen Bishop, having taken his stepfather's last name as a child; later he hyphenated the two names, performing for two decades as Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich before finally dropping ``Bishop'' six years ago.
		Kovacevich's own recordings from his early years have recently been reissued as part of Philips' gargantuan 200-CD set dubbed ``Great Pianists of the 20th Century.'' He's represented by recordings of solo works by Beethoven, Bartok, Chopin and Stravinsky, as well as a collaboration with pianist Martha Argerich, with whom Kovacevich has a grown daughter.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/04/18/PK107185.DTL&type=music (1381 words)

	Welcome to the Vancouver Courier Online Edition - Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When Stephen Kovacevich walks onstage at the Playhouse on Sunday (Feb. 18), audience members with a better memory for faces than names may feel a sense of déjà vu.
		At the time of his appearance with the VSO in the late ’60s, Kovacevich was regarded as a pianist of enormous potential.
		In interview, Kovacevich remains unassuming and thoughtful and, although he considers his replies carefully, sprinkles his conversation liberally with chuckles.
	www.vancourier.com /issues01/02301/ent4.htm (763 words)

	Classical Net Review - Beethoven - Piano Sonatas #1-3
		Stephen Kovacevich is reaching the completion of his Beethoven piano sonata cycle for EMI Classics.
		Kovacevich is intent on keeping a wide gulf between Beethoven and Haydn or Mozart.
		Some of the engineering in Kovacevich's Beethoven series has been a little clangorous, but things are OK on this disc.
	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/e/emi57730a.html (395 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| \| Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas; Bagatelles Op 119 & 126: Stephen Kovacevich
		But as far as I can establish from the recording dates in the booklet, the performances of the three Op 2 sonatas have never appeared before, while the account of the last sonata, the C minor Op 111, is new too.
		Kovacevich has evidently had second thoughts, and this new account certainly pushes the expressive boundaries of his playing much further than before, making the music so intensely wrought that every note seems wrenched out of Beethoven's creative soul.
		Kovacevich does not always manage to breathe new life into the most familiar works, like the Moonlight Sonata Op 27 no 1 and the Appassionata Op 57, which can seem fractionally routine.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1069673,00.html (398 words)

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