Starts at $30
Solo piano recital with the winner of the Cliburn Bronze Medal, Kapell Competition, Gilmore Young Artist Award, and an Avery Fisher Career Grant.
Hailed by critics as “frighteningly talented” (The New York Times) and “a great pianist” (The Los Angeles Times), Christopher Taylor has distinguished himself throughout his career as an innovative musician with a diverse array of talents and interests. He is known for a passionate advocacy of music written in the past 100 years—Messiaen, Ligeti, and Bolcom figure prominently in his performances—but his repertoire spans four centuries and includes the complete Beethoven sonatas, the Liszt Transcendental Etudes, Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and a multitude of other familiar masterworks. Whatever the genre or era of the composition, Mr. Taylor brings to it an active imagination and intellect coupled with heartfelt intensity and grace.
Numerous awards have confirmed Mr. Taylor’s high standing in the musical world. He was named an American Pianists’ Association Fellow for 2000, before which he received an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1996 and the Bronze Medal in the 1993 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. In 1990 he took first prize in the William Kapell International Piano Competition, and also became one of the first recipients of the Irving Gilmore Young Artists’ Award. He currently serves as Paul Collins Associate Professor of Piano Performance at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Program
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
(1770-1827) Allegro con brio
arr. Liszt Andante con moto
Allegro
Allegro
INTERMISSION
Sergei Prokofiev Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 14
(1891-1953) Allegro, ma non troppo – Più mosso – Tempo primo
Scherzo. Allegro marcato
Andante
Vivace – Moderato – Vivace
James Herbert “Eubie” Blake Eight Rags
(1887-1983) Poor Jimmy Green
Eubie’s Classical Rag
Eubie Dubie (composed with John Guarnieri)
Brittwood Rag
The Baltimore Todolo
Poor Katie Redd
Kitchen Tom
The Charleston Rag