In 1985 Upshaw shared the first prize in the Walter M. Naumburg Competition, consequently making her recital debut at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
In the early 1950's, she made her recital debut at Town Hall.
Yael Weiss, who made her recital debut at the Metropolitan Museum on March 25, had a no-nonsense approach: she strode onstage and got right down to the business of demonstrating a fine technique and musicianship in the service of an arresting array of music, from Berio ("Sequenza IV") to Beethoven.
Head next door to Weill Recital Hall on Friday, where ALINA IBRAGIMOVA, a superb young Russian violinist, will make her New York recital debut.
And at 8 tonight at Alice Tully Hall, she will make her New York recital debut in the Great Performers' Art of the Song series.
In keeping with tradition, the 18-year-old native of the Netherlands will make her New York recital debut tomorrow at the 92nd Street Y, at Lexington Avenue.
But the young soprano BARBARA QUINTILIANI, who was to make her New York recital debut on Sunday evening at Alice Tully Hall, called it off for a rather more dramatic reason.
If your travels plans this spring do not include Kalamazoo, Mich., where Ms. Fliter will perform at the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival in May, you should pencil in March 21 , 2007 when she is to make her New York recital debut at Zankel Hall.
As part of the Masters of the Keyboard series, Valentina Lisitsa, a Ukrainian pianist who has recently gained a big following on YouTube, will make her New York recital debut playing one of three programs to be chosen by the general public and the audience through online voting.
On Sunday at 2 p.m., she will make her United States solo recital debut in the Great Performers Art of the Song series at Alice Tully Hall.
