Pianist

Join us for the world-premiere performance of MYTHOLOGIES, a genre-defying, visionary musical work featuring a piano soloist, three vocalists, and narration. Composed by GRAMMY®-winner Danae Xanthe Vlasse, this concert features a GRAMMY®-acclaimed cast: sopranos Sangeeta Kaur and Hila Piltmann, tenor Omar Najmi, and pianist Robert Thies.

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Mythologies

ArcBest Corporation Performing Arts Center - Fort Smith

Thies Consort

Los Angeles Harbor College

Pacific Unitarian Church

Lyris Quartet with pianist Robert Thies

Conducted by Donato Cabrera, California Symphony performs at the Lesher Center, featuring guest soloist Robert Thies.

Beethoven’s Eroica

Lesher Center for the Arts

Full of rich harmonies, Montgomery’s Overture is a lively piece that blends elements of jazz, American classical music, and Baroque rhythms.

Tortured by comparisons to Beethoven, it took Brahms 21 years to finish writing his first symphony. Some critics hailed the piece as “Beethoven’s Tenth” in recognition of Brahms’ ultimate triumph.

Brahms Obsessions

The iconic Overture to Marriage of Figaro from legendary Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart will open the evening, followed by the Pulcinella Suite from the late-Romantic and early modern era Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. According to Maestro Nowak, Mozart and Stravinsky are two composers “who just go well together.” The evening closes with guest piano soloist Robert Thies returning for a performance of Ludwig Van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58, a piece which exemplifies Beethoven as both a master of the neoClassical style and transformative Romantic figure.

 In the Classical Style

Grace Baptist Church

Experience the wonder of this magical season as a choir of angelic voices and virtuosic soloists join with your SBSO for a holiday concert like no other! And, as a special gift to our patrons, we celebrate the 100th Anniversary of one of the greatest and most technically dazzling concertos ever written: Sergei Prokofiev's tempestuous Second Piano Concerto, performed by the incomparable piano prodigy, Rob Thies.

A Christmas Festival 2023

Historic California Theatre for the Performing Arts

After a 13-year hiatus, the COS is proud to have pianist Robert Thies return to Central Oregon performing Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto. Robert, a Gold Medal Winner at the International Prokofiev Competition in Russia, has been described by the LA Times as “a pianist of unerring warm-toned refinement, revealing judicious glimmers of power.” The rousing “Jubilee” from American composer George Whitefield Chadwick’s Symphonic Sketches will open the second half of the concert followed by the iconic Firebird Suite, the composition that launched the storied career of twentieth-century musical pioneer, Igor Stravinsky.

Fall Concert Series 2023

Bend Senior High School

The Thies Consort

Mozart and Beethoven

Join acclaimed pianist Robert Thies and SBSO Principals for the music of Schumann, Brahms, Vlasse, Rachmaninoff, and Debussy.  Buy Single Tickets

An Intimate Evening of Classical Piano

San Bernardino Valley College Auditorium

Joy radiates throughout this vibrant program, from Jimmy López’s high-energy Techno to the expressive sweep of Iowa’s James Poulsen’s Piano Concerto, recently recorded by Robert Thies with the Royal Philharmonic. The celebration culminates in the triumph over fate in Tchaikovsky’s powerful Fourth Symphony.

Pianist

Robert Thies

Events

Upcoming events

15 - 16 May, 2027

Season Finale: Radical Joy – Tchaikovsky’s Fourth · Des Moines Symphony

Past events

Oct 3, 2026

Mythologies · Fort Smith Symphony

17 - 19 Apr, 2026

Thies Consort · South Bay Chamber Music Society

Future and recently performed repertoire

Piano in Piano Concerto No. 21 by Mozart

Lesher Center for the Arts

Piano in Auf dem Strom by Schubert

South Bay Chamber Music Society

Piano in Horn Trio by Brahms

South Bay Chamber Music Society

Piano in Märchenbilder by Schumann

South Bay Chamber Music Society

Piano in Zwei Gesänge by Brahms

South Bay Chamber Music Society

Piano in Piano Quintet in F minor by Franck

South Bay Chamber Music Society

Piano in Des Fischers Liebesglück by Schubert

South Bay Chamber Music Society

Piano in Piano Concerto by Poulsen

Des Moines Symphony

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