HOROWITZ PIANO

MORSE RECITAL HALL IN SPRAGUE MEMORIAL HALL

WEDNESDAYS AT 7:30PM

OCT 18 | ROBERT BLOCKER

A performance by the faculty pianist and former School of Music Dean who the Los Angeles Times has said performs with “a measurable virtuoso bent.”

NOV 8 | BORis BERmaN

A performance of music by Debussy, Mozart, Prokofiev, and Schoenberg by the faculty pianist whose playing The New York Times has said is “charged with energy and intelligence.”

DEC 13 | wEi-yi yaNg

A performance by the faculty pianist whose playing the Hartford Courant has described as “spontaneous, yet logical, lyrical and technical.”

JaN 24 | mELViN ChEN

A performance by the faculty pianist whose musicianship The New York Times has described as “precise.”

JaN 31 | héLèNE gRimauD

A performance of Bach’s formidable Chaconne (arr. Busoni, from the Partita in D minor, BWV 1004), and music by Beethoven and Brahms, by the artist The New Yorker has described as “a pianist of clean grace and insight.”

FEB 28 | EmaNuEL ax maR 27 | BORis sLuTsKy & ERiC zuBER

A performance of Beethoven’s “Appassionata” Sonata and music by Schoenberg by the artist whose “pianism is always thoughtful, lyrical, lustrous” (The Washington Post).

Faculty pianist Boris Slutsky, who The Baltimore Sun has said plays “with intelligence, imagination and a sense of poetry,” and Eric Zuber, whose playing the Cleveland Plain Dealer has said is marked by “interpretive finesse and intensity,” perform a two-piano program featuring Rachmaninoff’s Piano Suites and Symphonic Dances, in celebration of the composer’s 150th birthday.

DAVID

SHIFRIN, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR