'Joy and pain interweave in the light of the world…Thousands of years flash by with glory and strength, revealing that which is indestructible'. Extraordinary claims; but then extraordinary is the only word for the heaven-storming choral finale of Ferruccio Busoni’s colossal Piano Concerto: a masterpiece on the scale of a symphony, composed in 1904 by one of Mahler’s greatest fans. 

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Gerstein plays Busoni’s Piano Concerto

Barbican Centre

Flutist, Demarre McGill and clarinetist, Anthony McGill join the orchestra for the first time. The performance will also feature Stravinsky's The Firebird.

The Firebird!

The Smith Center for the Performing Arts

Las Vegas Philharmonic Presents The Firebird!

The Canadian-born pianist Tony Siqi Yun recently made his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra performing Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin. He first met Maestro Nézet-Séguin in the final round of the inaugural China International Music Competition in 2019, where he went on to win First Prize and a Gold Medal performing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No 1. Other recent concerto performances have included the Cleveland Orchestra (Tchaikovsky), Toronto and Orchestre Métropolitain in Montreal (Clara Schumann) and the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris (Beethoven).

Tony Siqi Yun

Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center

Tony Siqi Yun regularly performs solo recitals in both Europe and North America. Recent and future highlights include his debuts at the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Düsseldorf, Luxembourg and in North America the Vancouver Recital Society and Gilmore Rising Stars Series. At the Kissinger KlavierOlymp in 2022 he was awarded two prizes. Tony has a long-standing relationship with the China Philharmonic Orchestra with whom he has toured and also appeared as soloist in the 2019 CCT New Year’s Concert. He has also performed with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. He is a recipient of the Jerome L. Greene Fellowship at the Juilliard School where he studies with Professors Yoheved Kaplinsky and Matti Raekallio.

A Recital: Tony Siqi Yun, piano

Aspen Meadows Resort

The San Francisco Symphony welcomes renowned pianist Igor Levit for a multi-week concert residency. Levit became a household name in 2020 when he presented a daily concert online from his home for fifty consecutive days, offering music, hope, and connection during the pandemic.

Igor Levit Plays Busoni

Davies Symphony Hall

Masterworks Series: Busoni and Shostakovich / Jerry Kuderna

Bargemusic

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First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica

Since his triumph as winner of the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition, pianist Garrick Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess. Kirill Gerstein’s playing is distinguished by its clarity of expression, discerning intelligence and virtuosity, and an energetic, imaginative musical presence that places him at the top of his profession. This concert brings the two generational talents together in a program featuring highlights of the two-piano repertoire: Adès suite from his groundbreaking opera Powder Her Face; Busoni’s homage to Bach, the Fantasia Contrappuntistica; Rachmaninoff’s own arrangement of his exhilarating late career Symphonic Dances; and the virtuosic La Valse.

Garrick Ohlsson & Kirill Gerstein Piano Duo

Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts

In this rare duo recital by two of today’s finest pianists, Garrick Ohlsson and Russian American master Kirill Gerstein team up to perform a program of Rachmaninoff, Ravel, and Busoni, including one of Busoni’s imaginative two-keyboard arrangements of music by Mozart.

Garrick Ohlsson & Kirill Gerstein

Soka Performing Arts Center

The artistic partnership of married pianists Alessio Bax and Lucille Chung has led to one of the most expressive and appealing duos today. Through music by Poulenc, Schumann, Debussy, and Ravel, Bax and Chung demonstrate their musical chemistry, passion, and virtuosity on two pianos.

Ferrucio Busoni

Events

Upcoming events

Mar 2, 2025

Alessio Bax & Lucille Chung · Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts

Past events

Nov 1, 2024

Gerstein plays Busoni’s Piano Concerto · Barbican Centre

Apr 20, 2024

The Firebird! · Las Vegas Philharmonic

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