New York, NY - The World Premiere performance of composer Haskell Small's Lullaby of War will be given by pianist Soheil Nasseri with special guest narrator Daniel Hendricks Simon on Monday, September 24 - 8 PM at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, 154 W. 57 St. at 7 Avenue in Manhattan.

Mr. Small has written of the new work, "Lullaby of War is a setting of 6 war poems for piano and narrator. Its tone (the music and texts) is sardonic, with 2 seemingly opposite meanings implied. First, that we are still lulled into war despite the supposed development of "humanity" - this is definitively a piece against war. And second, the piece offers solace - a lullaby - in the form of the prayer sections that open the piece and interconnect the texts."

Mr. Nasseri will also present Beethoven's Sonata No. 31 in A-flat, Op. 110 and 11 New Bagatelles, Op. 119, along with Schumann's Sonata No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 11. This concert will be repeated on October 8 at Konzerthaus Berlin in Berlin. Germany.

Tickets for the September 24 concert are $45 and $33, with discounts for students. To purchase tickets, call CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800, visit the box office, or buy online at www.carnegiehall.org.

The New Yorker has called pianist Soheil Nasseri "one of New York's most prolific recitalists." Since the fall of 2001, the 28-year-old has performed seventeen completely different solo recital programs in New York, all without repeating a single piece: twelve at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, and five at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center. These concerts included twenty premiéres of contemporary works in addition to the first 27 of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas, a part of Mr. Nasseri's pledge to perform all of Beethoven's works involving piano - including the chamber music and lieder - by the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth in 2020. Much more about him at http://www.soheilnasseri.com/index.htm.

Hailed by England's Musical Times for his "dazzlingly prodigious technique", Haskell Small first came to public attention as a pianist after winning the Pittsburgh Concert Society auditions at the age of 21. In recent seasons, Mr. Small has made several tours of Japan and performed recitals in New York, Paris and London.

Following in the tradition of 18th and 19th century pianist/composers, Haskell Small is also an accomplished composer. He has received commissions from such organizations as the Phillips Collection, Washington Performing Arts Society, Three Rivers Piano Competition, Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic, Georgetown Symphony and Paul Hill Chorale, and he was the winner of the 1999 Marin Ballet Dance Score Competition. His music has been recorded for Museum Music, Orion, Northeastern, Ongaku, Centaur, 4Tay, Albany and Klavier.

Following Small's premiere performance of his Symphony for Solo Piano, Tim Page of The Washington Post lauded the work as "a serious and substantial composition that deserves a permanent place in the keyboard repertory." You can read Lisztian Sparkle, a marvelous interview with the pianist/composer in England's Music & Vision classical music webmagazine at http://www.mvdaily.com/articles/2002/05/small1.htm.

For more information about Haskell Small, visit him at his website - http://www.jamesarts.com/h-small/, or contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net.

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