Symposium on Beethoven’s Piano Sonata, Op. 31 No. 2 (“Tempest”)

September 20, 2016

CONCERT HALL, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston,  5:45 pm

Panel 1

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Boaz Sharon

 

Professor of Piano, Chair of Piano Department, and Director of the Young Artists Piano Program at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute

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Peter Sykes

 

Chair of Historical Performance Department and Associate Professor of Music, Harpsichord, Organ, Clavichord, and Fortepiano.

Pieter Bergé

Pieter Bergé

 

Professor, Head of the Musicology Department, University of Leuven, Co-editor of Beethoven’s Tempest Sonata: Perspectives of Analysis and Performance.

PERFORMANCE: Peter Sykes

Panel 2

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Jonathan Biss

 

Pianist, teacher, essayist, and author, creator of the popular Coursera course,Exploring Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas, and engaged in a project to record all the Beethoven sonatas.

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Lewis Lockwood

 

Co-Director, Center for Beethoven Research, Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, named “the leading American authority on Beethoven.”

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David Kopp

 

Associate Professor of Music, Composition and Theory, author of Chromatic Transformations in Nineteenth-Century Music.

PERFORMANCE: Jonathan Biss