Recitals

Starting with artist-faculty member Hung‑Kuan Chen’s all-Beethoven recital on the opening night of the Festival, the season featured a wealth of recitals by a range of new and familiar artists who were finally able to return to the intimate setting of Harris Concert Hall. Among the violinists were Esther Yoo, Vadim Gluzman, and alumnus Robert McDuffie. Pianists included alumnus Maxim Lando, former artist-faculty member John O’Conor, Lise de la Salle, Paul Lewis, and Vladimir Feltsman. Pacifica Quartet and the American Brass Quintet also performed.

In June, eighteen-year-old South Korean pianist Yunchan Lim made history as the youngest person ever to win the Gold Medal in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. In a long-standing AMFS tradition, his Aspen debut was one of the first stops on his post-Gold-Medal tour.

The month of August featured a trio of carefully curated individual recitals by three important opera voices—tenors Lawrence Brownlee and Nicholas Phan performed with AOTVA senior coach and pianist Myra Huang , and baritone Will Liverman performed with pianist Jonathan King.

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