Galvin Recital Hall, $30/10
“His greatness, his overwhelming authority as musician, technician, and probing intellect emerges quickly as he plays,” observes the Los Angeles Times. Seven-time Grammy Award winner Emanuel Ax is one of the most sought-after pianists performing today. A frequent and favorite presence for Chicago audiences, he also performs regularly with the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and Los Angeles Philharmonic, among others. A Sony Classical exclusive recording artist since 1987, Ax has garnered numerous accolades for his solo and chamber releases, including a series of Grammy-winning recordings of the Beethoven and Brahms cello-piano sonatas with Yo-Yo Ma. Ax is a committed exponent of contemporary composers, with a repertoire that includes works written for him by John Adams, Bright Sheng, Christopher Rouse, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Melinda Wagner. This season he premieres two newly commissioned works—HK Gruber’s Piano Concerto with conductor Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic and Samuel Adams’s Schubert-inspired Impromptus. The latter is featured in this concert, part of Ax’s first Bienen School residency as winner of the 2016 Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance. A reception for subscribers follows the performance.
Franz Schubert, Four Impromptus (D. 935)
Samuel Adams, Impromptus
Frédéric Chopin, Impromptus Nos. 1 and 2 and Sonata No. 3 in B Minor
Date and Time
Wednesday May 3, 2017
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM CDT
Wednesday, May 3, 7:30 p.m.
Location
Galvin Recital Hall
Fees/Admission
$30/10