Young Composers Past and Present   [full program]
The music of a young composer is his introduction to the world. In this program we’ll hear some music that made the world sit up and listen! We’ll hear the sincere Ballades opus 10 written by 23-year-old Brahms; the sensual, direct Pour le Piano written by Debussy just before his rise to fame; and we’ll discover music which is new today: the vibrant, groovy Sonata til Lifsins by Icelandic composer Mist Thorkelsdottir.

Beyond the Keys   [full program]
Barbara Lieurance transforms the piano into a playground of exploratory sounds, with a program of contemporary music that includes bowed, plucked and prepared piano. Armed with tools ranging from fingernails to fishing line, she brings alive the music of Cage, Lachenmann, Liang, and Curtis-Smith. For detailed information, please visit the spotlight section.

Virtuosos and Visionaries   [full program]
A program that begins with the joyful sonorities of Debussy and ends with the wild visions of Crumb. And in the middle? The late sonatas of Beethoven and Prokofiev, works which delve deep into the beauty and power of the piano itself.

Young composers Past and Present    [top]
Pour le Piano      Prelude      Sarabande      Tocatta	Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Sonata til Lifsins	Mist Thorkelsdottir ( – )
Ballades op. 10      Andante      Andante      Allegro      Andante con moto	Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
Beyond the Keys    [top]
Sonatas and Interludes      Sonatas XIV and XV	John Cage (1912 – 1992)
Child’s play      Hanschen klein      Clouds In Icy Moonlight      Akiko      Fake Chinese (Slightly Drunk)      Filter Swing      Bell Tower      Shadow Dance	Helmut Lachenmann (1935 - )
Garden Eight      Tian      Di      Dong      Nan      Hsi      Bei	Lei Liang (1972 - )
Rhapsodies      I ". . . a swift pure cry . . ."      II "But Wait! Low in dark middle earth. Embedded ore."      IV "Listen! The spiked and winding cold seahorn."	C. Curtis-Smith (1941 - )
Virtusos and Visionaries    [top]
Preludes      Bruyeres      (. . . Le vent dans la plaine)      (. . . "General Lavine" _ eccentric _ )	Claude Debussy (1862 – 1918)
Etudes      Pour les tierces      Pour les octaves
Sonata in A-flat Major, op 110      Moderato cantabile molto espressivo      Allegro molto      Adagio ma non troppo; Arioso dolente;          Fuga; Allegro mo non troppo; L'istesso          tempo di Arioso; L'inversione della Fuga	Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827)
Sonata No. 6 in A major, op. 82      Allegro Moderato      Allegretto      Tempo di valser lentissimo      Vivace	Sergei Prokofiev (1891 – 1953)
Makrokosmos Volume II      Ghost-Nocturne:         for the Druids of Stonehenge      Gargoyles      Tora! Tora! Tora! (Cadenza Apocalittica)      A Prophecy of Nostradomus	George Crumb (1929 - )