UPCOMING EVENTS
February 12th, 2024 - expect some pop-up performances to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Rhapsody in Blue
PAST EVENTS
- October 2022 - new release on VDE-Gallo! Schumann's Novelletten and Humoreske
- Sunday October 9th, 2022 celebrating César Franck in the Orgelpark in Amsterdam
- Wednesday February 8th, 2023 at19:00 - Concert at the Music School of the City of Ulm (Germany), Marktplatz 19
- Sunday February 12th, 2023 at17:00 - My Songs from Childhood, Schumann, and Gershwin at the René Waldhauser Klavierwerkstatt in Liestal (Switzerland) as part of the Basel Infinity Festival Baselland Edition
- February 2023 - starting as "Teacher of Keyboard Musicianship" at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam - I am very excited to interact there with brilliant, young musicians who will in turn be shaping the future of classical music. What a perfect way to not only complement but also inspire my activities as a concert pianist, recording artist, composer, and improviser.
- March 2023 - new release on Naxos! Late piano music of Frederic Rzewski (1938-2021)
- March 28th, 2023 - Celebrating my Rzewski release on Naxos at Art Base in Brussels
- April 6th, 2023 - Interview/Discussion/Open Forum on the idea of *play in music at the Royal Conservatoire of the Hague
- https://www.koncon.nl/agenda/dialogues-on-music-the-animated-musician?d=45f7051b
- June 1st, 2023 - Concert at the Raleigh Court Presbyterian Church in Roanoake, VA (USA)
- Friday June 9th, 2023 - Celebration of Frederic Rzewski's music at BargeMusic in New York City www.bargemusic.org
- Early July 2023 - filming a video story about my Schumann work and a performance of the Schumann 1st piano sonata with videographers Elisabeth Zumthor and Daniel Ryser
- Saturday July 8th, 2023 - Schumann and Gershwin at the En Blanc et Noir Piano Festival in Lagrasse, France www.enblancetnoir.com
- September 16th at 12:00 - Alkan's 11 Pieces in a Religious Style, Op. 72 at Musica Sacra in Maastricht (Netherlands)
February 12th, 2024 - expect some pop-up performances to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Rhapsody in Blue
PAST EVENTS
Beethoven 4th Concerto with Philippe Herreweghe and the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
side by side with students of the Royal Conservatoire of the Hague
Haydn piano sonatas and variations at the Menuhin Festival (Gstaad, Switzerland)
multiple recitals dedicated to Frederic Rzewski in Montiano, Italy, hosted by Montiano forte & piano
Homage to Frederic Rzewski at the Ars Musica contemporary music festival in Brussels
with Nataša Penezić, Stéphane Ginsburgh, and Daan Vandewalle
Rzewski's "Songs of Insurrection" at BargeMusic in New York City, Centro d'Arte in Padua, Italy,
and at the En Blanc et Noir Piano Festival in Lagrasse, France
solo recital as a guest of the Fondazione Leoncavallo (Brissago, Switzerland)
Saint-Saëns and César Franck celebrations at the Orgelpark in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Haydn Recital on a historical piano at Ceresio Estate in Lugano, Switzerland (broadcast on Swiss radio)
Bártok Third Piano Concerto with the Vallejo Symphony Orchestra and conductor Marc Taddei vallejosymphony.org/
"Christmas" recital in the Montserrat Caballe room at the Liceu Opera House in Barcelona
The USA première of Frederic Rzewski's "Songs of Insurrection," Beethoven's Ninth Symphony arr. Liszt for solo piano,
my performance-lecture called "Inner Voices," and a Robert Schumann recital
at the San Francisco International Piano Festival (San Francisco, CA, USA) https://sfpiano.org/
China tour with the New European Ensemble
Silent film and two-piano music with Ashley Hribar at the Coral Gables Arts Cinema (Miami, FL, USA)
Old First Concerts in downtown San Francisco with pianist Jeff LaDeur (San Francisco, California, USA)
Guest residency at Linfield College (McMinnville, OR, USA)
We Sing For the Future! in the Müzewest concert series (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
Visit to Reinhild Steingröver's class at the Eastman School of Music
to discuss working as a freelance musician and finding your own quiet sound (Schlegel's leiser Ton)
Frederic Rzewski’s The Road live for Dutch classical radio (Maastricht, Netherlands)
STOP THE WAR! Excerpts from The Road Part 8 by Frederic Rzewski at Spectrum (Brooklyn, NY, USA)
Gubaidulina Festival in The Hague, Netherlands with the New European Ensemble
John Cage 4'33" and Beethoven Sonata c-minor Op. 111 in the Braunlager Maikonzerte Music Festival
Schumann, Rzewski, and Cornelius Cardew 'We Sing for the Future!' at BargeMusic (New York City, NY, USA)
Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms with Ralph van Raat, Peter Dijkstra, and the Nederlands Kamerkoor
and in a solo piano arrangement with the Neuer Basler Kammerchor
team-teaching with Rudolf Lutz at the Rockenhausen Masterclass for Classical Improvisation
Solo recital in the International Piano Series at the College of Charleston (USA)
Mozart Concerto in C Major, No. 21 with Barock Sommer (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Schumann Fantasy, Op. 17 in the Old First Concert Series (San Francisco, CA, USA)
Performances of improvisations in classical style at the i = u Improvised Music Festival in London (UK) and Brooklyn, NY
Tchaikovsky first, Beethoven first, and Beethoven third piano concertos with the
Kwazulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra (Durban, South Africa)
Beethoven 4th piano concerto with Noord Nederlands Orkest (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Mozart Bb Major piano concerto No. 27 with the Amman Symphony Orchestra (Jordan)
Solo performances at the American Liszt Society National Convention (Washington D.C.)
Beethoven 1st piano concerto with Concerto Armonico Freiburg (Freiburg, Germany)
Stravinsky Concerto for Piano and Winds with the Eastman Wind Ensemble
Frederic Rzewski’s “The People United Will Never Be Defeated!” at the Eastman School of Music (Rochester, NY, USA)
and many other locations world-wide
