Read her biographical sketch here.

George Gershwin wrote over 1,000 songs, but much of his classical piano music - as he originally wrote it - was lost since the 1920s. The piano pieces that were available were heavily edited, truncated or incomplete - UNTIL NOW.

Embarking on a historical musical "dig", Dr. Alicia Zizzo, one of America's most eminent classical pianists and scholars, discovered and restored Gershwin's classical piano music from his own hand-written fragments, sketches and original manuscripts.

A find for pianists everywhere, Dr. Zizzo's Warner Bros. Publications of all new editions of Rhapsody in Blue (based entirely on his own manuscript), The Complete Gershwin Preludes (all seven fully restored), Blue Monday, a piano suite from Shall We Dance, The I Got Rhythm Variations for piano solo, Lullaby and other unpublished manuscripts for solo-piano are now now available at all fine music stores or through SheetMusicPlus and The Sheet Music Store.

Dr. Zizzo's internationally acclaimed performances of these works and the Concerto in F, as well as Seven Miniatures in Gershwin's Hand were recorded by Carlton Classics on Gershwin Rediscovered, Volumes I and II.

You can read several of her important articles about Gershwin¹s music online at the following addresses:

On George Gershwin and Elitism - http://www.jamesarts.com/zizzo/AZ_GershwinElitism.htm

Forward To 'I Got Rhythm Variations' - http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/nov02/AZ_112602.htm

The Rhapsody in Blue: What Gershwin Really Wrote - http://www.jamesarts.com/zizzo/AZ_GershwinBlue.htm

Rubatos, Preludes and George Gershwin - http://www.jamesarts.com/AZCLAVPREL.htm

She can also be contacted through Jeffrey James Arts Consulting, 45 Grant Avenue, Farmingdale NY 11735 - 516-586-3433 - or at jamesarts@worldnet.att.net.