PROGRAM
“Travels” (version for Violin, Cello and Piano 2017): Infectious melodies and driving rhythms contrast with plaintive soliloquies in this metaphysical journey of an optimistic person who who strives to retain that optimism throughout times of life’s inevitable difficulties. First movt won the Grand prize at The Ear competition in New York City in November 2016. (4 movements-25 minutes)
 

WITH WORKS BY SAINT-SAËNS, POULENC, DEBUSSY, RAVEL, FAURÉ, FRANCK, & MORE
Featuring pianists Dasol Kim, Louis Schwizgebel, and Joyce Yang; and the Rolston String Quartet

The work of great Broadway composers—from Gershwin to Sondheim to Rodgers & Hammerstein—has helped to define the American experience. We learn many of their songs when we’re very young; they often become the soundtrack of our lives. Join us as we dive into the Great American Songbook, with piano transcriptions of many of its famous pieces by some of today’s most prolific composers (Stephen Hough, Earl Wild, Mason Bates, Jake Heggie, Ricky Ian Gordon) and performed by several of our favorite pianists.