Michael Beachley Gives a 2020/2021 Season Update
Vice President Michael Beachley gives an update on the 2020/2021 season.
November 14, 2020
SOUNDPOINTS
Rachelle McCabe Reveals New Piano Series
Re-imaginings: A Virtual Piano Festival will begin on this website in September.
August 27, 2020
Yulianna Avdeeva: Purveyor of Fantasia
Recent Steinway Piano Series concerts have showcased the forms of piano sonata and piano variations. In this blog, we have discussed the sonata form as a sort of “hero’s journey,” with variations as more of a kaleidoscopic, transformative exploration of a melody. Now we have
February 27, 2020
Looking Forward to Conrad Tao
Five years ago, after being wowed by Conrad Tao’s performance, Curtis and I had the great fortune to spend some time afterward with this marvelous pianist. In these moments, we were able to glean some insight into his thoughts on music. Subsequently, Curtis followed him
October 31, 2019
Earl Wild: A Great Pianist Retrospective
“[Everyone] knew he had an utterly spectacular technique on the Horowitz-Bolet stratospheric level, that he was a serious musician who was all but unapproachable in certain aspects of the literature, especially Liszt…[whom] he was playing long before it again became fashionable to do so.” In
September 27, 2019
Past Performances
2018 – 2019 season Steinway Series Yeol Eum Son – Sunday, April 14, 2019 Jeremy Denk – January, February 13, 2019 Lukáš Vondráče – Sunday, November 4, 2018 2017 – 2018 season Steinway Series Natasha Paremski – Sunday, November 5, 2017 Garrick Ohlsson – Sunday, February 18, 2018 Vadym Kholodenko – Sunday, April
May 1, 2019
Prelude to an Afternoon
Based on the fortuitous programming of the eminent pianists who have performed on the Steinway Series, recent blog posts have had the opportunity to muse on the musical forms piano sonata and piano variations prior to concerts featuring those kinds of works. Yeol Eum Son’s upcoming program,
May 1, 2019
A “Piano-tastic” weekend in Corvallis
At Corvallis-OSU Piano International, our mission is “bringing people together in a culture of piano through performance, education and advocacy.” We are always thrilled by the opportunity to present world-class pianists and spectacular repertoire through our Steinway Series. No less a key part of our
February 24, 2019
