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- Skyline Piano Artist Sequence includes a lineup of all-female artists
- Segovia Classical Guitar Sequence welcomes Grammy winner David Russell
- Balourdet and Viano Quartets make their Winter Chamber Music Pageant debuts
- Keyboard Conversations celebrates Beethoven, Romantic period composers
EVANSTON, Sick. — Six Northwestern College debuts are in retailer for the 2023-24 season because the Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music resumes its 4 visitor artist subscription collection showcasing a various lineup of expertise from world wide.
Coming into its seventh season, the Skyline Piano Artist Series (Nov. 3, 2023 to April 28, 2024) highlights pianistic virtuosity throughout 5 performances and champions a full roster of girls artists, together with winner of the 2023 Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance, Maria João Pires.
The 27th Winter Chamber Music Festival (Jan. 5-21, 2024) takes audiences on a journey by way of previous and current chamber music masterpieces and options the debuts of the Balourdet and Viano Quartets.
The Segovia Classical Guitar Series (Oct. 21, 2023 to Could 4, 2024) options an array of worldwide sounds from high musicians, together with Raphaella Smits, Nigel North, David Russell, Álvaro Pierri and An Tran.
By way of his concert events with commentary, Jeffrey Siegel uncovers the inspiration behind piano masterpieces in a four-part Keyboard Conversations collection (Sept. 29, 2023 to Could 10, 2024).
Subscriptions for every of the 4 collection at the moment are on sale and could also be bought on-line at concertsatbienen.org, by cellphone at 847-467-4000 or in individual at Choose-Staiger Live performance Corridor, 50 Arts Circle Drive in Evanston, throughout ticket workplace hours. Single tickets might be accessible Monday, Aug. 14.
Ticket workplace hours by way of Sept. 15 are Monday by way of Friday, 11 a.m. to three p.m. Starting Sept. 18, ticket workplace hours are 10 a.m. to six p.m., Monday by way of Friday, and midday to three p.m. on Saturday.
Subscription collection concert events are as follows:
Keyboard Conversations with Jeffrey Siegel
Sept. 29, 2023 to Could 10, 2024
Choose-Staiger Live performance Corridor, 50 Arts Circle Drive
The four-program collection, getting into its 54th season on Chicago’s North Shore, options spirited performances and insightful commentary by Siegel.
Mozart and Friends
7:30 p.m., Friday, Sept. 29, 2023
Beethoven’s humorous Variations on “God Save the King,” Mozart’s Variations on “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,” Haydn’s “Gypsy Rondo,” and a pleasant Rondo by Mozart’s star pupil, Johann Nepomuk Hummel spherical out this program of works by Mozart’s contemporaries.
Chopin and Liszt
7:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 8, 2023
Siegel showcases nocturnes, polonaises and Hungarian rhapsodies by the 2 Romantic period composers Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt.
A French Musical Feast
7:30 p.m., Friday, Feb. 9, 2024
This tasting menu of masterpieces by French composers contains Debussy’s ever-popular “Clair de lune,” Ravel’s enchanting Sonatine and Saint-Saëns’s devilish “Danse macabre.”
Three Great Beloved Romantics
7:30 p.m., Friday, Could 10, 2024
Siegel closes the 54th season of Keyboard Conversations with music of Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Grieg.
Skyline Piano Artist Series
Nov. 3, 2023 to April 28, 2024
Galvin Recital Corridor, 70 Arts Circle Drive
The five-concert collection highlights dynamic artistry towards the backdrop of the Chicago skyline. 4 achieved pianists make their Northwestern debuts this season: Yulianna Avdeeva, Anna Geniushene, Beatrice Rana and Maria João Pires. Gabriela Montero returns for her first Skyline Piano Artist Sequence efficiency, following an October 2012 look at Choose-Staiger Live performance Corridor.
Yulianna Avdeeva
7:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 3, 2023
Yulianna Avdeeva gained worldwide recognition on the 2010 Chopin Competitors, receiving first prize and garnering reward from judges and press alike. A favourite artist in Europe with recurring live performance engagements at Poland’s Warsaw Philharmonic, Prague’s Rudolfinum, Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal and the Vienna Konzerthaus, Avdeeva has additionally given concert events for Ukrainian aid, together with one with violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter on the Lucerne Pageant. Amongst her in depth orchestral collaborators are the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony and Royal Stockholm Philharmonic. Current seasons have seen Avdeeva in recital on the Salzburg Pageant, Palau de la Música Catalana, Worldwide Jerusalem Chamber Music Pageant and the Shostakovich Pageant in Saxony.
Anna Geniushene
7:30 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024
Silver medalist of the 2022 Van Cliburn Competitors, Anna Geniushene has developed a flexible profession as an artist, performing in main venues such because the Nationwide Live performance Corridor in Dublin, Tel Aviv Museum of Artwork and the Grand Corridor of the Moscow Conservatory. She has appeared with famed conductors together with Marin Alsop, Gintaras Rinkevičius and Valentin Uryupin, and collaborates along with her husband, pianist Lukas Geniušas and Quartetto di Cremona. A laureate of main worldwide piano contests, she beforehand had sturdy finishes on the Leeds (laureate and finalist), Tchaikovsky (semifinalist) and Busoni (third prize) worldwide competitions.
Beatrice Rana
7:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024
Beatrice Rana attracted worldwide consideration in 2011, when she gained first prize and all particular prizes on the Montreal Worldwide Competitors at age 18. Rana performs on the world’s most esteemed live performance halls and festivals together with Vienna’s Konzerthaus and Musikverein, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and New York’s Lincoln Heart and Carnegie Corridor. She collaborates with such conductors as Paavo Järvi, Leonard Slatkin and Zubin Mehta. In 2015, Rana’s first album with Antonio Pappano and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, that includes piano concertos of Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky, obtained worldwide acclaim, together with the celebrated Gramophone Editor’s Alternative and BBC Music Journal’s Newcomer of the 12 months Award. In June 2013, Rana gained the silver medal and the viewers award on the Van Cliburn competitors.
Maria João Pires
7:30 p.m., Friday, April 12, 2024
Winner of the Bienen Faculty’s 2023 Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Efficiency, Maria João Pires has toured or carried out with most of the world’s best orchestras, together with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, London Philharmonic and Orchestre de Paris, amongst others. She is a four-time recipient of the Grand Prix du Disque, and her in depth discography contains recordings for Deutsche Grammophon and Erato Information. A loyal instructor, Pires created the Belgais Centre for the Examine of the Arts in Portugal and initiated two complementary tasks in Belgium: the Partitura Choirs and workshops and the Hesperos Choir, which goal to create an altruistic dynamic between artists of various generations. Pires is the recipient of the Don Juan de Borbón da Música Prize and the Eduardo Lourenço Prize for her contribution to the diffusion of musical tradition.
Gabriela Montero
7:30 p.m., Sunday, April 28, 2024
Celebrated for her distinctive musicality and skill to improvise, Gabriela Montero has carried out with most of the world’s main orchestras, together with the New York Philharmonic and Vienna Radio Symphony and Belgian Nationwide orchestras. A graduate and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in London, Montero is a frequent recitalist and chamber musician, having given concert events at such distinguished venues as London’s Wigmore Corridor and Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. Montero’s 2008 album “Baroque” obtained a Grammy nomination, and her recording of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and her first orchestra composition, “Ex Patria,” gained her a Latin Grammy Award for Finest Classical Album. Montero is a dedicated advocate for human rights and was named an Honorary Consul by Amnesty Worldwide in 2015. She was additionally awarded the 2012 Rockefeller Award for her contribution to the humanities and was a featured performer at Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential Inauguration.
Segovia Classical Guitar Series
Oct. 21, 2023 to Could 4, 2024
Galvin Recital Corridor, 70 Arts Circle Drive
This five-concert collection, named for legendary guitar virtuoso Andrés Segovia, is getting into its thirtieth season. Its 2023-24 programming options Raphaella Smits, Nigel North, David Russell, Álvaro Pierri and An Tran.
Raphaella Smits
7:30 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023
Raphaella Smits performs worldwide on eight-string guitars and historic devices, and her performances have met with enthusiastic audiences and press. Along with her reside performances, Smits has made 21 recordings and is internationally praised as an inspiring instructor for each guitar and chamber music, serving on the juries of many worldwide music competitions. In 1986, Smits was the primary girl to win the primary prize of the Certamen Internacional de Guitarra “Francisco Tárrega,” the well-known worldwide guitar competitors in Benicàssim, Spain, incomes reward from chairmen Andrés Segovia and Narciso Yepes. She holds a chair on the Lemmens Institute in Belgium and frequently offers grasp courses throughout Europe, the Americas and Japan.
Nigel North
7:30 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024
Nigel North is a self-taught lutenist who has developed a novel profession as a instructor, accompanist, soloist, director and author. He has carried out internationally as a solo recitalist at venues together with London’s Wigmore Corridor, the Vienna Konzerthaus and the São Paulo Worldwide Guitar Pageant, in addition to with the award-winning ensemble Romanesca, which he co-founded. An avid instructor, North has held professorships at London’s Guildhall Faculty of Music and Drama, the Universität der Künste Berlin, the Royal Conservatoire The Hague and Indiana College’s Early Music Institute. His recordings of Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber’s sonatas gained Gramophone Classical Music and Edison Awards. North’s in depth checklist of collaborators contains the Academy of Historic Music, the Brandenburg Consort, the Purcell Quartet and the Hilliard Ensemble.
David Russell
7:30 p.m., Saturday, March 2, 2024
Classical guitarist David Russell is world-renowned for his very good musicianship and impressed artistry, having earned the very best reward from audiences and critics alike. He obtained a Grammy Award for his CD “Aire Latino” and in 2018 was inducted into the Guitar Basis of America Corridor of Fame. In recognition of his nice expertise and his worldwide profession, he was named a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in London in 1997 and was given the Medal of Honor of the Conservatory of the Balearic Islands in November 2003. He’s additionally an honorary member of “Amigos de la Guitarra,” the oldest guitar society in Spain. Russell seems frequently at prestigious halls in cities together with New York, London, Tokyo, Madrid, Toronto and Rome. Along with his renown as a reside performer, Russell is a prolific recording artist whose assortment contains 17 CDs with the Telarc Worldwide label.
Álvaro Pierri
7:30 p.m., Saturday, April 13, 2024
A two-time recipient of the Canadian Félix Award for Classical Album of the 12 months, Álvaro Pierri was awarded first prize within the Worldwide Guitar Competitors in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the Worldwide Guitar Competitors in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and obtained the gold medal within the 18th Worldwide Music Competitors in Paris. He has shared the stage with Charles Dutoit and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Astor Piazzolla and the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra with Pinchas Steinberg, the Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra with Wojciech Rajski and the London Chamber Orchestra, amongst many others. Pierri offers grasp courses at main music festivals and venues internationally, together with the Manhattan Faculty of Music, Sevilla and Elche in Spain and the Worldwide Summer season Academy of the Mozarteum Salzburg.
An Tran
7:30 p.m., Saturday, Could 4, 2024
An Tran continues to impress audiences with innate musicality and dynamic artistry. In latest seasons, Tran has been invited to carry out recitals at worldwide live performance levels together with the Guitar Society of Toronto Worldwide Performing Artist Sequence, Saigon Worldwide Guitar Pageant and the Knoxville Classical Guitar Society. Tran’s debut album, “Keep, My Beloved,” was included within the Chicago Tribune’s Recordings of the 12 months for 2020. He has gained over a dozen worldwide guitar competitions and music awards, together with high prizes from the Berlin Worldwide Guitar Competitors and Pageant, New Orleans Worldwide Guitar Pageant and the Society of American Musicians’ guitar competitors. Tran not too long ago accomplished a Physician of Musical Arts diploma from Northwestern College as a Dorothy and Carl Johnson endowed scholar and scholar of Anne Waller.
Winter Chamber Music Festival
Jan. 5-21, 2024
Choose-Staiger Live performance Corridor, 50 Arts Circle Drive
The annual pageant explores centuries of chamber music masterworks over the course of six performances through the month of January.
Balourdet Quartet
7:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. 5, 2024
Gold medalist of each the Fischoff Nationwide Chamber Music Competitors and the Annual Competitors for Chamber Music in Yellow Springs, the Balourdet Quartet has carried out internationally at festivals and collection together with the Amelia Island Chamber Music Pageant, the Aspen Music Pageant, the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Live shows and Santa Fe Professional Musica. The quartet obtained the Grand Prize on the 2021 Live performance Artists Guild’s Victor Elmaleh Competitors, in addition to prizes within the Banff, Paolo Borciani and Carl Nielsen competitions.
Ariel Quartet with pianist Orion Weiss
3 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024
The Ariel Quartet has garnered important reward worldwide for greater than 20 years, successful quite a few worldwide prizes together with First Prize on the Franz Schubert and Trendy Music Competitors in Austria, Grand Prize on the 2006 Fischoff Nationwide Chamber Music Competitors and the Székely Prize on the Banff Worldwide String Quartet Competitors. Pianist Orion Weiss, who joins the Ariel, has carried out with orchestras together with the Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony and New York Philharmonic. Weiss’s spectacular checklist of awards contains the Classical Recording Basis Younger Artist of the 12 months, the Gilmore Younger Artist Award and an Avery Fisher Profession Grant.
Quartet-in-Residence, Dover Quartet
7:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. 12, 2024
Named one of many best string quartets of the final century by BBC Music Journal, the Grammy-nominated Dover Quartet has quickly change into one of many world’s most in-demand chamber ensembles. The group’s many awards embody a sweep of all the highest prizes on the 2013 Banff Worldwide String Quartet Competitors, grand and first prizes on the Fischoff Nationwide Chamber Music Competitors and prizes on the Wigmore Corridor Worldwide String Quartet Competitors. Their 2022-23 season contains collaborations with Edgar Meyer, Joseph Conyers and Haochen Zhang, in addition to two excursions of Europe. The quartet not too long ago premiered Steven Mackey’s theatrical-musical work “Memoir” along with arx duo and actor-narrator Natalie Christa.
Viano Quartet
3 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024
Since successful first prize on the 2019 Banff Worldwide String Quartet Competitors, the Viano Quartet has captivated audiences throughout the globe, with stops together with New York, London, Berlin, Vancouver, Paris, Beijing and Lucerne. Of their childhood, the quartet swept high prizes at main competitions, together with Grand Prize on the 2019 ENKOR Worldwide Music Competitors, second prize on the 2019 Chamber Music in Yellow Springs Competitors and the Silver Medal on the 2018 Fischoff Nationwide Chamber Music Competitors. The Quartet has collaborated with pianists Emanuel Ax, Marc-André Hamelin, Inon Barnatan and Elisso Virsaladze, violists Paul Coletti and Paul Neubauer, vocalist Hila Plitmann and clarinetist David Shifrin.
Parker Quartet
7:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. 19, 2024
The Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet has quickly distinguished itself as one of many preeminent ensembles of its era, making latest appearances at Wigmore Corridor, Konzerthaus Berlin and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. The quartet is dedicated to working with composers of as we speak, with latest commissions together with works by Augusta Learn Thomas, Felipe Lara, Jaehyuck Choi and Zosha di Castri. This season the quartet marks their twentieth anniversary with The Beethoven Mission, a multi-faceted initiative which incorporates performances of the entire cycle of Beethoven’s string quartets; the commissioning of six composers to write down encores impressed by Beethoven’s quartets; the creation of a brand new video library spotlighting every Beethoven quartet; and bringing Beethoven’s music to non-traditional venues across the quartet’s dwelling base of Boston. The Parker Quartet’s quite a few honors embody successful the Live performance Artists Guild Competitors, the Grand Prix and Mozart Prize at France’s Bordeaux Worldwide String Quartet Competitors and Chamber Music America’s biennial Cleveland Quartet Award.
Gryphon Trio
3 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024
The Gryphon Trio is firmly established as one of many world’s preeminent piano trios, frequently touring all through North America and Europe and having fun with longstanding relationships with the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Ottawa Chamberfest and Pageant del Lago Worldwide Academy of Music in Ajijic, Mexico. The trio usually performs triple concerti with the world’s main symphony orchestras and smaller chamber orchestras, and their prolific recording catalogue contains 22 releases on the Analekta, Naxos and different labels. Honors embody 11 nominations and three Juno Awards for Classical Album of the 12 months. The Gryphons are ensemble-in-residence on the Isabel Bader Centre for Performing Arts in Kingston, Ontario, and artists-in-residence at Trinity Faculty College of Toronto. Since 2010, the trio’s ground-breaking outreach program, Hear Up!, has impressed 16 Canadian communities to collaborate on large-scale multifaceted arts creation tasks.
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