Pre-concert Talk at 2:15pm
Steven Osborne is one of Britain’s most treasured musicians with an immense depth of musicality and exceptional refinement of expression across diverse repertoire, be it in Beethoven or Messiaen, Schubert or Ravel, Prokofiev or jazz improvisations. His numerous awards include the Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist of the Year, two BBC Music Magazine Awards, and two Gramophone Awards. His residences at London’s Wigmore Hall, Antwerp’s deSingel, the Bath International Music Festival, The Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra are a testament to the respect he commands. We are thrilled with the program he has chosen for Vancouver!
SCHUMANN: Arabesque
DEBUSSY: Nos. 4, 2, 5, 3 from Children’s Corner
DEBUSSY: Two Arabesques
SCHUMANN: Kinderszenen
MARION BAUER: “White Birches”, From the New Hampshire Woods, Op. 12 No. 1
MEREDITH MONK: Railroad (Travel Song)
RZEWSKI: “Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues” from Four North American Ballads for Piano
OSBORNE: Improvisations
KEITH JARRETT: My Song (trans. Osborne)
GERSHWIN: I Loves You Porgy (trans. Osborne)
HANLEY & MACDONALD: Indiana (trans. Osborne)
“Vast technical command is balanced by penetrating insight and an expressivity that seems to derive from a more than unusually empathetic instinct for the nature of the composers in question.” — The Guardian
Ticket prices: A: $88 B: $63 C: $28
BUY 3 concerts or more and receive a 15% discount
BUY 5 concerts or more and receive a 20% discount
BUY 8 concerts or more and receive a 25% discount
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