Pianist

Experience our season finale concert, an evening brimming with captivating music that spans centuries and styles, featuring masterful works by contemporary and classic composers.

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Season Finale: Ravel & Rachmaninoff

Charles W. Eisemann Center for Performing Arts and Corporate Presentations

Cho-Liang Lin & Friends

Alice Pratt Brown Hall

Shepherd students join forces with faculty for Sharing the Spotlight performances.

Jon Kimura Parker & Friends

Join Rei Hotoda and the Fresno Philharmonic for an evening of powerful and innovative musical brilliance. The centerpiece is Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, a bold and lively masterpiece that was still being shaped at its premiere and has since become one of the most celebrated works in classical music. Pianist Jon Kimura Parker joins the orchestra as soloist. The program also features Ravel’s elegant Le Tombeau de Couperin, written in honor of fallen friends, and Sibelius’s majestic and structure-bending Symphony No. 5.

Ravel, Beethoven & Sibelius

Paul Shaghoian Memorial Concert Hall

Cho-Liang Lin, Jon Kimura Parker & Clive Greensmith

Jon Kimura Parker & Valentin Radutiu

Let one pianist loose on the 88 keys and—voilá! Magic. Multiply that by four and unite them on stage, and the effect is spectacular. The Grand Piano Spectacular returns again this summer—and it is a real thrill to see and hear! Creative Partner Jon Kimura Parker reprised this long tradition of Sommerfest, the Orchestra’s beloved summer festival that dates back to 1980. This summer, we welcome pianists representing the next generation of great recitalists who will perform alongside Parker.

Grand Piano Spectacular

Orchestra Hall

Kathleen Winkler, Violin & Jon Kimura Parker, Piano

This recital is given in partial fulfillment of the degree Artist Diploma. Jaewon Wee is a student of Cho-Liang Lin. 

Jaewon Wee, Violin

Jon Kimura Parker, Piano

Cho-Liang Lin, Violin & Jon Kimura Parker, Piano

Internationally recognized as one of today’s most acclaimed and admired pianists, Yefim Bronfman leads a master class with Shepherd School students.

Yefim Bronfman, Piano

Jon Kimura Parker, Aloysia Friedmann & Richie Hawley

Piano students of Jon Kimura Parker

Our season concludes with three iconic compositions and two orchestral world premieres. Bernstein’s toe-tapping Three Dance Episodes from On the Town, Copland’s distinctively American Appalachian Spring Suite, and Gershwin’s jazz-infused Rhapsody in Blue are paired with two works rooted in Western New York. Michael Daugherty’s Niagara Falls is a musical journey through one of the world’s great scenic wonders, while Buffalo-born Paul Moravec’s Serenade—inspired by the Great Western Staircase at the New York State Capitol, a marvel of intricate sculpture and history—offers a stirring narrative of ascent and aspiration.

American Soundscapes

Kleinhans Music Hall

Audience favorite Jon Kimura Parker returns to Orchestra Hall to play Hillborg’s seamless MAX Concerto, written for Emanuel (Manny) AX. Then we find Sibelius at work on his Second Symphony while on holiday in Italy. Although it was completed in Finland, you’re sure to feel the warmth of the Italian sun.

Pianist

Jon Kimura Parker

Events

Upcoming events

5 - 6 Jun, 2026

American Soundscapes · Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

5 - 7 Nov, 2026

Søndergård, Parker and Sibelius · Minnesota Orchestra

Past events

Apr 25, 2026

Season Finale: Ravel & Rachmaninoff · Richardson Symphony Orchestra

Mar 10, 2026

Cho-Liang Lin & Friends · The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University

Future and recently performed repertoire

Piano in Piano Concerto No. 3 by Beethoven

Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra

Piano in Violin Sonata No. 7 by Beethoven

The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University

Piano in Hallelujah Junction by Adams

The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University

Piano in Piano Concerto No. 2 by Hillborg

Minnesota Orchestra

Piano in Piano Concerto in G Major by Ravel

Richardson Symphony Orchestra

Piano in Piano Quartet in E-flat major by Schumann

The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University

Piano in Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Major by Brahms

The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University

Piano in Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, by Rachmaninoff

The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University

Piano in Piano Quartet in E-flat Major by Dvořák

The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University

Piano in Piano Quartet in C Minor by Fauré

The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University

Piano in Sonata for Violin and Piano in E Minor, K 304 by Mozart

The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University

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