Students Sarah Chianglin, flute; Phillip Kong and Ian Tam clarinet; Matthew Chang and Eileen Kim, violin; Jisue Choi and Simon Shelley piano; Evelyne Knight, marimba; will perform a variety of selections that they have studied with faculty. They will be assisted by pianist Kyungmi Kim.

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Pomona College Student Recital 4

Pomona College

“A brilliant musician and an extraordinary visionary” (Wall Street Journal), French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard “always curates his recitals with scholarly devotion” (Washington Classical Review). This fascinating recital program focuses on the fantasia, interspersing works of widely differing character from the modern to the Baroque.

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Mozart composed his opera “The Magic Flute” as an allegory for the Masonic initiation. In this program, FWSO brass deliver a bright arrangement of the opera’s Overture as well as offerings by composers Oskar Böhme and Kevin McKee. Also on the program are Elliot Carter’s grave Sonata for Piano and Cello as well as one of Britten’s first published works, the rarely heard Phantasy Oboe Quartet.

Hidden Gems: Music by Mozart, Carter, Böhme, McKee, and Britten

Kimbell Art Museum

Violinist Isabelle Faust, cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, and pianist Alexander Melnikov take us on a fascinating journey through a thrilling repertory of piano trio ‘hits,’- including the “Ghost” and “Dumky” ‘hits’ by Beethoven, Brahms, and Elliott Carter.

Isabelle Faust, violin, Alexander Melnikov, piano, and Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello

The Royal Conservatory of Music

Student musicians perform for Artistic Director Soovin Kim and festival artists Hye-Jin Kim and Fred Sherry during a morning of violin and cello masterclasses taking place simultaneously. The audience can wander from room to room and observe these illuminating sessions.

Opening Festival Saturday

Saint Michael's College

Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Kelley O'Connor's uniquely rich and alluring voice makes her one of the most compelling performers of her generation. Following her performance as the soloist in Mahler's Third Symphony with the Aspen Festival Orchestra, she is joined by AMFS Music Director Robert Spano on the piano for this intimate Harris Hall recital. 

Recital: Kelley O'Connor mezzo-soprano and Robert Spano piano

Aspen Meadows Resort

Hailed by the Cincinnati Business Courier for her “exquisite control, expressive beauty and a voice of sheer gold,” and the San Francisco Chronicle for her “ravishingly velvet vocal tone,” Grammy® Award-winning mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor performs four song cycles. Debussy’s three Chansons de Bilitis are sensuous and impressionistic evocations of an antique pagan world. Robert Spano composed his moving Sonnets to Orpheus for Kelly O’Connor based on poetry of Rilke. The five songs in Britten’s 1947 A Charm of Lullabies last only 12 minutes, and range from a true lullaby to scarier fare. Britten enjoyed composing on the theme of sleep and wrote some of his strangest music on the subject. This piece is no exception. In Schumann’s Frauenliebe und Leben, the female protagonist describes her life with her husband from first meeting through marriage to his death, and after. The text is characteristic of earlier days when a woman was defined solely by her relationship to a man, but the music is timeless. Hear one of the most compelling vocal artists of her generation joined by AMFS Music Director Robert Spano at the piano!

Elliott Carter

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Mar 1, 2024

Pomona College Student Recital 4 · Pomona College

Feb 23, 2024

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano · Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

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