Lied Center program #7

CONTENTS DATE

EVENT

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APR 3

Samuel Ramey: An Intimate Evening of Music & Storytelling

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APR 9

ZOFO–one piano, four hands

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APR 17

Candid Camera’s LOL Tour with Peter Funt

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APR 22

BEAUTIFUL–The Carole King Musical

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APR 26

Sybarite5, innovative string quintet

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MAY 14

Beatrice Rana, piano

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These events are sponsored, in part, by the Lied Performance Fund.

Please be mindful of the following in the Auditorium and the Pavilion:

• Please silence cellular phones and electronic devices.

• No cameras or recording devices.

• Refreshments purchased from KU Memorial Unions at concessions are permitted. No outside food or drinks.

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Friday

APR 3 7:30 pm

Samuel Ramey:

An Intimate Evening of Music & Storytelling World-renowned operatic bass-baritone

Sponsored by

Jeff and Mary Weinberg are pleased to support performing arts experiences in our community and help bring world‑class artists, like Samuel Ramey, to the Lied Center stage.

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APR 3 | Samuel Ramey

PROGRAM Samuel Ramey, bass Warren Jones, piano Musical selections for the evening will be chosen from the following list and announced from the stage.

Jerome Kern: “Ol’ Man River” (Showboat) Charles Ives: “Charlie Rutlage” Aaron Copland: “The Dodger” Cole Porter: “Don’t Fence Me In” Franz Schubert: “Der Atlas” Charles Ives: “The Circus Band” Cole Porter: “The Tale of the Oyster” Franz Schubert: “Der Doppelgänger” Cole Porter: “Embraceable You” Carlisle Floyd: “Blitch’s Prayer of Forgiveness” (Susannah) Charles Gounod: “Serenade” (Faust) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: “Madamina! Il catalogo e questo” (Don Giovanni) Igor Stravinsky: “I burn! I freeze!” (The Rake’s Progress) Mitch Leigh: “The Impossible Dream” (The Man of La Mancha) Arrigo Boito: “Ecco il Mondo” (Mefistofele)

There will be a 20-minute intermission during the program.

Program is subject to change.

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APR 3 | Samuel Ramey

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SAMUEL RAMEY For almost three decades, Samuel Ramey has reigned as one of the music world’s foremost interpreters of bass and bass-baritone operatic and concert repertoire.

Méphistophélès in Gounod’s Faust has become his most-performed role, with over 200 performances in more than twenty productions. He is equally well-known in opera houses and concert halls throughout the world for his performances of Boito’s Mefistofele, including over 70 performances in the Robert Carsen production of this work specifically created for Mr. Ramey, Méphistophélès in Berlioz’s La damnation de Faust, Nick Shadow in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, and the tour-de-force of all four villains in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann. He presented a sold-out concert at Avery Fisher Hall (David Geffen Hall) entitled A Date with the Devil, which was also presented in Munich’s Gasteig Concert Hall and was recorded live by Naxos Records.

Other opera roles of Mr. Ramey include Verdi’s Attila, Zaccaria in Nabucco, King Phillip II and the Grand Inquisitor in Don Carlo, Fiesca in Simon Boccanegra, Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, Olin Blitch in Floyd’s Susannah, Rossini’s Maometto II, the title role in Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle, Claudius in Thomas’s Hamlet, Scarpia in Puccini’s Tosca, Claggart in Britten’s Billy Budd, and Massenet’s Don Quichotte. He has appeared on the stages of The Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera Covent Garden, Vienna Staatsoper, Opéra de Paris, Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Arena di Verona, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Hamburg, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Zürich Opera, Teatro la Fenice, Teatro Colon and Dutch National Opera. In concert, he has performed with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, La Scala Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Mr. Ramey has worked with every major conductor, including James Conlon, Valery Gergiev, Bernard Haitink, James Levine, Riccardo Muti, Kent Nagano, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Simon Rattle, Leonard Bernstein, Lorin Maazel, Claudio Abbado, Sir Colin Davis, Julius Rudel, Sir Georg Solti and Herbert von Karajan.

Samuel Ramey holds the distinction of being the most recorded bass in history. His more than 80 recordings include complete operas, recordings of arias, symphonic works, solo recital programs and popular crossover albums on every major label. His recordings have garnered many awards, including three Grammy Awards, Gran Prix du Disc Awards and “Best of the Year” citations from journals including Stereo Review and Opera News. He has also been featured frequently on television in appearances with Live from the Met and Live from Lincoln Center as well as other productions taped for PBS. A native of Colby, Kansas, Mr. Ramey was active in music throughout high school and college. In 1995, he was named “Kansan of the Year,” and in 1998 the French Ministry of Culture awarded him the rank of Commander in the Order of Arts and Letters. He is currently a distinguished professor of opera at Wichita State University.

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Warren Jones, pianist Warren Jones enjoys a notably eclectic career that has taken him to virtually every corner of the musical world. He performs with some of today’s best-known artists, such as Stephanie Blythe, Tamara Wilson, Jamie Barton and Anthony Dean Griffey, and he is the principal pianist for the exciting California-based chamber music ensemble Camerata Pacifica.

In the past, he has partnered with such great performers as Marilyn Horne, Håkan Hagegård, Kathleen Battle, Samuel Ramey, Christine Brewer, Barbara Bonney, Carol Vaness, Judith Blegen, Salvatore Licitra, Tatiana Troyanos, Thomas Hampson, James Morris and Martti Talvela, and he has appeared in concerts with both the Juilliard String Quartet and the Borromeo String Quartet.

Mr. Jones is a longtime faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music and a former faculty member at the Music Academy of the West, and he recently finished an appointment as artist-in-residence in music at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. In 2017, he was invited by the National Association of Teachers of Singing to be the inaugural Master Teacher in their Intern Program for young collaborative pianists at the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto; and, later in that year, he served as artist-in-residence in opera at the New England Conservatory and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Jones has received the Achievement Award from the Music Teachers National Association of America, their highest honor, and has been selected as Collaborative Pianist of the Year by the publication Musical America. In the summer of 2018, he inaugurated an innovative vocal workshop program at the Manchester Music Festival in Vermont for young singers and pianists. In 2019, his schedule also included a residency at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he taught and performed alongside members of the Takács Quartet. In May 2019, Jones joined the jury of the prestigious first China International Piano Competition in Beijing.

As an invited guest at the White House, Mr. Jones has performed for state dinners in honor of the leaders of Canada, Russia and Italy; and three times he has been the guest of the Justices of the United States Supreme Court for musical afternoons in the East Conference Room at the Court. As a musical jurist, he has participated in judging the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, the Montreal International Vocal Competition, the Metropolitan Opera National Auditions and the Naumberg Awards.

A graduate of both New England Conservatory and San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM), Jones was honored with the Doctor of Music degree from SFCM, and he was recently selected as a faculty member of the Board of Trustees at MSM. His discography contains 31 recordings on every major label in a wide range of classical, romantic and contemporary repertory. His conducting appearances are similarly varied: he has led sold-out, critically acclaimed performances of Mascagni’s L’amico Fritz, Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Mozart’s Die Zauberfloete and Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti. In 2014, he conducted the world premiere of a new operatic version of A Christmas Carol at the Houston Grand Opera.

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Thursday

APR 9 7:30 pm

Pavilion

Sponsored by

ZOFO One piano, four hands

Dave and Gunda Hiebert are pleased to sponsor tonight’s performance.

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ZOFO

Eva-Maria Zimmermann Keisuke Nakagoshi

PROGRAM Terry Riley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G-Song (1980), arranged by ZOFO, 2014 (b.1935) Nicholas Pavkovic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chimaera (2012) (b.1963) Gabriela Lena Frank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Haillí Lírico (Lyric Prayer), world premiere (b.1972) Commissioned by the Lied Center of Kansas in honor of Dave and Gunda Hiebert Erberk Eryılmaz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tupan and Davul (2019), commissioned by ZOFO (b.1989)

20-Minute Intermission Urmas Sisask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Milky Way (1990) (b.1960) Gustav Holst. . . . . . . . . . . . from The Planets, Op. 32 (1914-1916), arranged by ZOFO, 2013 (1874-1934) Mars, the Bringer of War

Venus, the Bringer of Peace

Mercury, the Winged Messenger

Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity Program is subject to change.

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ZOFO Since joining forces as a professional duo in 2009, internationally acclaimed solo pianists Eva-Maria Zimmermann and Keisuke Nakagoshi—ZOFO— have electrified audiences from Carnegie Hall to Tokyo with their dazzling artistry and outside-the-box thematic programming for one-piano-four-hands. This Grammy-nominated, prize-winning Steinway Artist Ensemble—one of only a handful of duos worldwide devoted exclusively to piano duets—is blazing a bold new path for piano four-hands by focusing on 20th- and 21st-century repertoire and by commissioning new works from noted composers each year.

ZOFO, which is shorthand for 20-finger orchestra (ZO=20 and FO=finger orchestra), also performs heart-pumping duet arrangements of famous orchestral pieces such as Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, exploring the realms in which many composers first experienced their symphonic visions.

ZOFO believes that the piano duet is the most intimate form of chamber music, with two musicians playing individual parts on one instrument in a complex, often beautiful, choreography of four hands.

The duo’s concert programs often incorporate a unifying theme that connects the works both musically and historically. Several of these thematic programs have been released worldwide as critically acclaimed commercial CDs under their multi-disc recording contract with Grammy Award-winning label Sono Luminus Records. Their 2013 debut CD, Mind Meld, was nominated for two Grammy Awards for Best Chamber Music/ Small Ensemble Performance and Producer of the Year.

ZOFO made its Carnegie Hall debut in 2010, the same year they won the Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition. They were the only piano duo to be elevated to the final round in the 2011 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition. The group has performed at a wide variety of concert venues across North America, Europe, Australia and Japan, including intimate and informal spaces; colleges and universities; and major concert venues, such as the Tokyo Opera Recital Hall, the Sydney City Recital Hall and Tonhalle Zurich. ZOFO has participated at numerous festivals, including Murten Classics in Switzerland, the Sun Valley Music Festival in Idaho, the Music on the Heights International Chamber Music Festival in Poland and the Kusatsu Summer International Academy and Festival in Japan.

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Committed to contemporary music, ZOFO has commissioned more than 30 works by noted composers, including Pulitzer Prize-winner William Bolcom, Gabriela Lena Frank, Terry Riley, Akira Nishimura, Carl Vine, Pawel Mykietyn, Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, Pablo Ortiz and many others. For their cutting-edge project ZOFOMOMA – New Pictures at an Exhibition, the duo commissioned new works from 15 top composers around the globe and requested each to select a painting representative of his or her culture as a springboard to the creative process. With this project, ZOFO was invited to a nine-concert Australia tour presented by Musica Viva in spring 2019.

Their newest projects are two commissions of one-piano four-hands concertos by Australian composer Carl Vine and Argentinian American composer Pablo Ortiz.

ZOFO’s innovative and inspired performances have garnered national media attention, and they have been featured on American Public Media’s Performance Today, WFMT Chicago’s Impromptu, KING-FM’s Second Inversion and Australia’s ABC Radio National’s The Art Show, among many others.

Gabriela Lena Frank, composer Currently serving as composer-in-residence with The Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin and included in the Washington Post’s list of the 35 most significant women composers in history (August 2017), composer and pianist Gabriela Lena Frank has always placed identity at the center of her music. Born in Berkeley, California in 1972 to a mother of mixed Peruvian/Chinese ancestry and a father of Lithuanian/Jewish descent, she explores her multicultural heritage through her compositions. Winner of a Latin Grammy Award and nominated for Grammys as both composer and pianist, Ms. Frank also holds a Guggenheim Fellowship and a USA Artist Fellowship, given each year to 50 of the country’s finest artists. Her work has been described as “crafted with unself-conscious mastery” (Washington Post), “brilliantly effective” (The New York Times), “a knockout” (Chicago Tribune) and “glorious” (Los Angeles Times).

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Friday

APR 17 7:00 pm

Candid Camera’s LOL Tour with Peter Funt

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APR 17 | Candid Camera’s LOL Tour with Peter Funt

There will be a 20-minute intermission during this event.

Candid Camera’s LOL Tour with Peter Funt is pleasing audiences nationwide. Peter’s hilarious stage comedy is blended with clips, quips and behind-the-scenes tales from the show’s funniest moments.

Candid Camera holds a unique place in entertainment history as the only show to have produced new episodes in each of the last eight decades, from Allen Funt’s debut in 1948 through Peter’s acclaimed run on TV Land. Peter’s latest show was a “Top Pick” in People Magazine and praised

by The New York Times. New production is now underway for late 2020.

The LOL stage show incorporates the best Candid Camera clips in a fast-paced, laugh-filled romp through the decades. Peter’s topical humor is blended with audience participation and special surprises to make the show a great night of fun.

Peter joined his dad as co-host and then took over as host in the 90s. Over his own four decades, Peter has hosted more than 200 network episodes.

He recently completed a full-length documentary about his dad, titled Mister Candid Camera. The film will be shown on streaming services later this year.

Peter appears on numerous talk shows, authored the book Cautiously Optimistic and writes nationally syndicated newspaper columns for USA Today and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in central California, where he’s an avid golfer, baseball player and people-watcher.

For more about Candid Camera, visit www.CandidCamera.com.

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Wednesday

APR 22 7:30 pm

Sponsored by

The World Company is pleased to sponsor this presentation of BEAUTIFUL–The Carole King Musical. As a part of the Lawrence community for more than 100 years, our company strives to enhance our community by supporting the arts, providing scholarships and supporting numerous philanthropic projects in the place we call “home.”

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Sunday

APR 26 2:00 pm

Pavilion

Sybarite5 Innovative string quintet

This event is made possible through the generous support of the J. Anthony Burzle Chamber Music Fund.

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Sybarite5 Sami Merdinian and Sarah Whitney, violinists Angela Pickett, violist Laura Metcalf, cellist Louis Levitt, bassist

PROGRAM Endeavor: Recently dubbed “the millennial Kronos,” Billboard chart-topping Sybarite5 is constantly bringing new works to life and introducing audiences to unique musical combinations. Endeavor is an eclectic mix of Sybarite5’s recent commissions from composers Jessica Meyer, Brandon Ridenour, Steven Snowden, Mike Block and 2018 Pulitzer finalist Michael Gilbertson. These new pieces join up with some of the group’s favorites from Aleksandra Vrebalov, Pete Seeger and even the soulful side of John Coltrane.

There will be no intermission during this event.

Selections will be announced from the stage.

Program is subject to change.

The set list will be available at www.sybarite5.org/blog following the concert.

Sybarite5 is represented worldwide by Frank Salomon Associates, Inc. 16 W. 36th St., Suite 1205 | New York, NY 10018 | www.franksalomon.com

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Sybarite5 is chamber music’s most dynamic ensemble, taking listeners on a musical journey of staggering breadth and depth with new works by living composers as well as the group’s favorite selections from Radiohead, Coltrane, Komitas, Piazzolla and Pete Seeger—but as Strings Magazine says, “that doesn’t even begin to describe the range of their eclecticism or the depth of their repertoire.”

Equal parts passion, grit and musical ecstasy, Sybarite5 is an intoxicating cocktail of post-genre musical goodness expressed through the virtuosity of Sami Merdinian and Sarah Whitney, violins; Angela Pickett, viola; Laura Metcalf, cello; and Louis Levitt, bass. This exciting quintet is constantly evolving, defying categorization, and has been keeping audiences on their toes for 10 years.

Always searching for new sounds and projects to bring to life, nothing is off limits. Their most recent album, OUTLIERS, consists entirely of new music written for them and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Traditional Classical Chart. Expect to see Sybarite5 collaborating with Iranian santoor player Ehsan Matoori, world percussionist and Silkroad co-artistic director Shane Shanahan, Hacked Theremins creator and composer Jakub Ciupinski, a troupe of burlesque dancers, symphony orchestras, or vocal chameleons Clarice Assad and Blythe Gaissert.

The group has performed in 43 states and counting, from the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. to the Anchorage Concert Association in Alaska as well as concerts in Sybarite5’s home of New York City at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, National Sawdust, the Apple Store and a decade residency at Nancy Manocherian’s Cell Theatre. In addition to its own groundbreaking, portable music festival, Forward Festival, Sybarite5 has appeared at festivals including Ravinia, Caramoor, Wolf Trap, Grand Teton, Aspen, Interlochen, Chautauqua and many others. International appearances include Canada’s Tuckamore Music Festival, the New Docta International Music Festival in Cordoba, Argentina, and the Osaka Festa in Osaka, Japan. The ensemble also works with more than 5,000 students annually and is known for their engaging corporate presentations in entrepreneurship and communication.

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Thursday

MAY 14 7:30 pm

Sponsored by

Beatrice Rana Piano

Dave and Gunda Hiebert are pleased to sponsor tonight’s performance.

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MAY 14 | Beatrice Rana, piano

PROGRAM Johann Sebastian Bach. . . . . . . . Concerto Italiano for Solo Keyboard in F Major, BWV 971 (1685–1750) Allegro

Andante

Presto Robert Schumann. . . . . . Piano Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 14 (“Concerto Without Orchestra”) (1810–1856) Allegro

Scherzo. Molto commodo

Quasi variazioni. Andantino di Clara Wieck

Prestissimo possibile

20-Minute Intermission Isaac Albéniz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Iberia, Book III (1860–1909) El Albaicín

El Polo

Lavapiés Igor Stravinsky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Three Movements from Petrushka (1882–1971) Dance russe (Russian Dance)

Chez Petrushka (Petrushka’s Room)

La semaine grasse (The Shrovetide Fair)

Please see your pre- and post-performance emails for program notes.

Program is subject to change.

Beatrice Rana records exclusively for Warner Classics.

For more information on Beatrice Rana, visit www.beatriceranapiano.com Management for Beatrice Rana: Primo Artists, New York, NY www.primoartists.com

MAY 14 | Beatrice Rana, piano

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Beatrice Rana has shaken the international classical music world already, arousing admiration and interest from concert presenters, conductors, critics and audiences in many countries. Beatrice performs at the world’s most esteemed concert halls and festivals, including Vienna’s Konzerthaus and Musikverein, Berlin Philharmonie, Amsterdam Concertgebouw’s main hall, New York’s Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, Zurich’s Tonhalle, London’s Wigmore Hall, Royal Albert Hall and Royal Festival Hall, Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Lucerne’s KKL, Cologne Philharmonie, Munich’s Philharmonie, Prinzregententheater and Herkulessaal, Frankfurt’s Alte Oper, Milan’s Società dei Concerti, Ferrara Musica, Verbier Festival, Klavier Festival Ruhr, Lugano’s LAC, La Roque d’Anthéron Festival, Montpellier Radio-France Festival, Rencontres Musicales d’Evian, Bucharest Enescu Festival, Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, San Francisco Performances, Los Angeles’ Walt Disney Hall and Hollywood Bowl, and Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center.

She collaborates with conductors such as Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Antonio Pappano, Fabio Luisi, Riccardo Chailly, Yuri Temirkanov, Gianandrea Noseda, Jun Märkl, Trevor Pinnock, James Gaffigan, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Lahav Shani, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Susanna Mälkki, Leonard Slatkin, Kent Nagano and Zubin Mehta. Orchestral appearances include the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony, NHK Symphony, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony, Seoul Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France, Tonkünstler Orchester, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI, Filarmonica della Scala, Helsinki Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Danish National Symphony Orchestra and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic.

During the upcoming seasons, Beatrice will debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Bayerische Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester, New York Philharmonic, Deutsches Sinfonie Orchester, Hessischer Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester, Orquesta Nacional de España, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon and will return to the Pittsburgh, Danish National, Dallas and Antwerp symphony orchestras. She will also tour with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski, the Wiener Symphoniker and Andrés Orozco-Estrada, and the Philharmonia Zurich and Fabio Luisi, with whom she is in residency for a complete Beethoven concerto cycle.

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Beatrice will play recitals at the Berlin Philharmonie as part of the Berlin Philharmonic recital series, the mainstage at Carnegie Hall as part of the Virtuoso Series, Lisbon’s Gulbenkian Foundation, Barcelona’s Palau de la Musica, Lugano’s LAC, Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Madrid’s Scherzo Great Performers Series, Gilmore Keyboard Festival, Tokyo’s Kioi Hall, Wigmore Hall as part of a residency as well as many other venues and festivals. She will also continue her collaboration with the Dortmund Konzerthaus as a Junge Wilde until 2022.

Beatrice Rana records exclusively for Warner Classics. In 2015, her first album, featuring Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2 and Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 with Antonio Pappano and the Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia di Roma, received international acclaim including the prestigious Gramophone Magazine’s Editor’s Choice and BBC Music Magazine’s Newcomer of the Year Award. The year 2017 will remain a milestone in her career with the release of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. The recording was praised by reviewers worldwide and was crowned by two major awards: Young Artist of the Year at the Gramophone Awards and Discovery of the Year at the Edison Awards. In June 2018, she was chosen as Female Artist of the Year at the Classic BRIT Awards at the Royal Albert Hall for her recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Beatrice also recorded Bernstein Symphony No.2, The Age of Anxiety, as part of Antonio Pappano’s recording of the composer’s complete symphonies, which also garnered her high critical acclaim. Her most recent solo album, released in 2019, features works by Stravinsky and Ravel.

In June 2013, Beatrice won the silver medal and the Audience Award at the prestigious Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. She had attracted international attention at 18 years old, winning First Prize and all special prizes at the Montréal International Competition in 2011. She is a recipient of an impressive number of first prizes in national and international piano competitions, such as Muzio Clementi Competition, International Piano Competition of the Republic of San Marino and Bang & Olufsen PianoRAMA Competition. Born to a family of musicians in 1993, Beatrice Rana made her debut as a soloist with orchestra at the age of nine, performing Bach Concerto in F minor. Beatrice began her musical studies at four and achieved her piano degree under the guidance of Benedetto Lupo at the Nino Rota Conservatory of Music in Monopoli, where she also studied composition with Marco della Sciucca. She then studied with Arie Vardi in Hannover and again with Benedetto Lupo at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia. Beatrice Rana is based in Rome.

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These individuals have become Friends since the original list was published.

Benefactor ($1,000+) Cathy Reinhardt & Norman St. Laurent Jake Stoetzner & Dr. Kelli Henderson Sponsor ($250) Mary Ann Brenner John T. Bullock Ernie J. Chaney, MD Laura Klish Chris Sundstrom Doug Wendel & Lisa Wolf-Wendel

Contributor ($100+) Lou Ann Boydston Fred Dohogne Janice Early Claire Kim-Shin Sarah & Ugur Parlak Greg Schmidt Mark & Janice Schonwetter Sarah Tham Linda Troutfetter & Bill Manger Rob & Joy Ward

Advocate ($50+) Elizabeth Campbell Max & Jeanne Fridell Shyanne Garcia Tresa Hill Emily Metzger Peggy Quirin Lilian & Fred Six Dr. Gregory Stump

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