Name: Sinfonia Da Camera: Golden Anniversary: Benefit Concert
Start: 2025-11-12T19:30:00
Location: Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

Ian Hobson

Sinfonia da Camera

Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

Join us in celebrating the 50th anniversary of Ian Hobson's first piano recital in Urbana, Illinois with a special solo concert benefiting Sinfonia da Camera. Hobson, the orchestra's esteemed music director and a distinguished pianist, nears completion of his acclaimed cycle of Robert Schumann's complete piano works. Featured on this program is Davidsbündlertänze, a deeply expressive set of character pieces that explores Schumann's contrasting artistic personas-passionate Florestan and introspective Eusebius. Maurice Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit follows, a virtuosic triptych inspired by dark, fantastical poetry. Ondine shimmers with the hypnotic song of a water nymph, Le Gibet conjures a ghostly gallows scene, and Scarbo races through a fiendish, nightmarish scherzo. The program concludes with selected Transcriptions by Sergei Rachmaninoff, showcasing Hobson's technical brilliance and expressive depth. This remarkable evening honors pianistic brilliance and a lifetime of musical artistry.