Saturday evening Winter Season concert
Argyros Performing Arts Center 120 Main St South, Ketchum, ID, United StatesWhat happens when a Grammy-nominated jazz composer and pianist with 24 albums to his name collaborates with a classical violinist known for premiering over 100 works written just for her? Find out at the Festival’s fourth annual Winter Season at the Argyros Performing Arts Center in Ketchum.
Find out more » Go to broadcast2022 Honors Recital
St. Thomas Episcopal Church 201 Sun Valley Rd, Sun Valley, ID, United StatesJoin the Sun Valley Music Festival in honoring outstanding year-round students of the Music Institute! The annual Honors Recital is an opportunity for these young musicians to demonstrate their abilities, formed through countless hours of hard work, to a live audience. Students audition to participate and are selected by a panel of faculty members.
Find out more » Go to broadcastBeethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto
Sun Valley Pavilion 300 Dollar Rd, Sun Valley, Idaho, United StatesFor opening night, George Li, one of the most sought-after young pianists on the scene today, tackles one of the greatest piano concertos ever written. Filled with joy, beauty, and heartbreaking tenderness, this is not the stomping and thrashing-about Beethoven of caricature. From the rising “fountains” of piano in the opening moments, to the ever-so-soft transition from the second into the final movement, the romance of this piece distances it from its classical predecessors. The season opens with the Star Spangled Banner, of course, followed by Jesse Montgomery’s Banner, a rhapsody on the theme of its famous predecessor.
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