SARA DANESHPOUR

Sunday, September 28 - 3:00 p.m.

21-year-old Sara Daneshpour studied with Leon Fleisher at The Curtis Institute for five years. Her stunning virtuosity and intense musicality win the accolades of audiences and critics and have garnered her international awards as well, including Second Prize at the 2007 William Kapell Competition in Maryland and the Gold Medal and Audience Prize at the 2007 International Russian Music Piano Competition in San Jose. Since her early teenage years, she has been featured in solo recitals at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and the Smithsonian American History Museum, as well as all over Europe.

PROGRAM

• BEETHOVEN  32 Variations in C minor, WoO 80
• CHOPIN  Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35
• PROKOFIEV  Sarcasms, Op. 17
• SCRIABIN  Prelude & Nocturne for Left Hand Alone, Op. 9
  
• RACHMANINOFF  Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42
• PROKOFIEV Toccata, Op. 11
  

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“…[Daneshpour] created transfixing poetry. And she found delightful details in passagework and incidents that other pianists treat as routine.”

— Washington Post