Michelle Cann, piano

Pianist Michelle Cann has been making waves across the country, having won two GRAMMY® Awards for her recordings of the music of Florence Price. Her program for the Gardner features dazzling music from pianist-composers, including Price’s Sonata in E minor. She will play three glorious 19th-century showpieces from Romantic greats—Mendelssohn, who dedicated his three-movement Fantasie to the great Ignatz Moscheles, and Liszt and Chopin, who were their own most famous interpreters. Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz No.1 depicts the waltz in the village inn from the 1836 Faust of Nikolaus Lenau and represents Liszt at his glittering best. Joel Thompson is an Atlanta-based composer/pianist whose work takes its title from James Baldwin.

Photo by Titilayo Ayangade

Felix Mendelssohn Fantasie in F-sharp minor, Op. 28 (1833)
Frédéric Chopin Ballade No. 3 in A-flat major, Op. 47 (1841)
Franz Liszt Mephisto Waltz No. 1, S. 514 (about 1862)
Florence Price Sonata in E minor (1932)
Joel Thompson “My Dungeon Shook” from Three American Preludes (2020)


 

Program subject to change. 

Michelle Cann, piano

Performance Level and First Balcony:
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Second Balcony:
Members $40, Adults $65, Seniors $55, Students & Children 7-17 $20

Third Balcony:
Members $30, Adults $50, Seniors $45, Students & Children ages 7–17 $20
 

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