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David Syme returns to Temple Israel
for Sunday evening concert.

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Pianist David Syme performs at his home in Ireland.

Suzanne Chesser

Special to the Jewish News

D

avid Syme's upcoming concert
at Temple Israel will give a
sense of his current work and
lifestyle priorities, which place him in
Ireland for half the year.
Syme, who schedules paid afternoon
concerts filled with Irish tunes in his
distant home, will include the works of
Chopin, Gershwin and Liszt as well as
Jewish and Irish melodies as he takes
the stage Sunday evening, March 21, as
part of the Schmier Concert Series.
"This will be a feast of piano music','
says Syme, 61, a Steinway artist joined
for some of the selections by Stefan
Kukurugya, a local musician who will
synthesize orchestral sounds heard on
the pianist's recordings.
"I will get a feel for the audience and
decide what pieces to play as I move
along:"
Syme, who spends the other half of
the year in Houston, has been doing
more orchestra work and is get-
ting ready for a concert in the Czech
Republic. He recently has appeared
with symphonies in Illinois, Texas and
Arizona.
"I've played at Jewish venues
throughout Europe, but it's still special
for me to perform at the temple that
was so important to my dad (the late
Rabbi M. Robert Syme)," the pianist
says. "I'm proud where I came from

genetically and socially, and I'm thrilled
to be coming back to see friends of
long standing:'
Actually, a connection through his
dad brought about the move to Ireland.
The pianist's wife, the former
Suzanne Sachnowitz, who has a home
in Ireland, had been converted to
Judaism by the late rabbi. She made the
initial contact with David Syme as she
tracked down a recording, Jewish Music
Then and Now, made by father and son.
"She was living in Texas, and we
communicated by e-mail and tele-
phone,' Syme says. "We just hit it off"
Syme, who will be selling his record-
ings at the time of the concert, has
a favorite story concerning another
album. One cherished copy of On Fire,
a collection of pop numbers, spent two
weeks in space. Taking the recording
into orbit was the idea of a close friend,
an astronaut.
Syme is preparing for his first con-
certs in Japan and Korea later this year.
He has recorded concertos on 19 CDs
with European orchestras, such as the
London Philharmonic and Vienna
Symphony.
"Most of my program at Temple
Israel will be solo piano',' says Syme,
who has appeared at Lincoln Center in
New York City, the Dorothy Chandler
Pavilion in Los Angeles and Kennedy
Center in Washington, D.C."I present
about 20 solo concerts a year in my
home in Ireland."

David Syme performs 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 21, at Temple Israel,
5725 Walnut Lake Road, in West Bloomfield. To order complimentary
tickets, contact Susan Toohy at (248) 661-5700 or go to stoohy®
temple-israel.org .

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