Renowned pianist Jonathan Biss will perform in the next Cornell Concert Series (CCS) production on Friday, February 21 at 7:30 p.m. in Bailey Hall.
Praised as “a superb pianist and also an eloquent and insightful music writer” (The Boston Globe) with “impeccable taste and a formidable technique” (The New Yorker), Biss has appeared internationally as a soloist with the Los Angeles and New York Philharmonics, the Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco Symphonies, and the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras, as well as the London Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw, the Philharmonia, and Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, among many other ensembles.
Biss has served as the co-artistic director of the Marlboro Music School and Festival alongside pianist Mitsuko Uchida since 2018. He served on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music for ten years and has been a guest professor at schools such as the Guildhall SOMAD and the New England Conservatory of Music. As author of Unquiet: My Life with Beethoven, he examines music and his own life’s journey through the lens of Beethoven’s last piano sonatas.
Biss is a teacher, musical thinker, and performer whose repertoire ranges from the core canon to contemporary commissions. At Cornell, he will be performing works by Franz Schubert and Tyson Gholston Davis.
In addition to the February 21 concert performance, Biss will also give a talk on performance and mental health during the Midday Music series at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 20 in Lincoln Hall room B20. A master class featuring piano students of Xak Bjerken will take place at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 20 in Barnes Hall.
Learn about artist and program information, subscriptions, single tickets, and student memberships on the CCS website, cornellconcertseries.com.
Free evening parking is available at the Forest Home (37 Forest Home Dr.) and Hoy garages.
The Cornell Concert Series has been hosting musicians and ensembles of international stature since 1903. Originally featuring Western classical artists, the series presented Ravi Shankar in 1987 and has since grown to encompass a broader spectrum of the world's great music.
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