"Music on Mondays": Barbara Nissman, piano
June 15, 2021
Monday, April 8, 2024, 8 PM
Street and Davis Performance Hall, Anne and Ellen Fife Theatre
This performance will last approximately two hours, including one 10-minute intermission.
Run times listed here are based on information provided at this time and are subject to change.
THIS PERFORMANCE HAS ALREADY OCCURRED.
This is a special Music on Mondays performance, co-presented by the School of Performing Arts and the Moss Arts Center
Works
Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata no. 1 in F minor, op. 1
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Two Preludes
Rachmaninoff: Two Etudes-Tableaux
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata no. 21 in C Major, op. 53, Waldstein
Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne op. 27, no. 2 in D-flat
Franz Liszt: Sonata in B minor
Internationally acclaimed pianist and Steinway artist Barbara Nissman connects — not only with the music and its composer, but the composer to the listener — touching souls in the process. Nissman makes music relevant. Hailed as “one of the last pianists in the grand Romantic tradition of Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and Rubinstein,” Nissman continues the grand bravura tradition of Romantic pianism.
Nissman's recordings of Prokofiev, Bartók, and Ginastera are considered “definitive,” and she has garnered praise for her series of recordings of 19th-century composers, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, Brahms, and also Rachmaninoff. All of her recordings are now available on her new record label, Three Oranges Recordings.
Nissman's international career was personally launched by Eugene Ormandy, who had previously engaged her as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. She has performed with the leading orchestras of Europe and America, including the London, Royal, Rotterdam, and Munich philharmonics, and the BBC Symphony; in the U.S., she has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia and Cleveland orchestras, and the Chicago, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and National symphonies, among others. Nissman has worked with some of the major conductors of our time, including Ormandy, Riccardo Muti, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, and Leonard Slatkin.
This is Nissman's first performance at the Moss Arts Center.
Works
Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata no. 1 in F minor, op. 1
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Two Preludes
Rachmaninoff: Two Etudes-Tableaux
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata no. 21 in C Major, op. 53, Waldsteing
Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne op. 27, no. 2 in D-flat
Franz Liszt: Sonata in B minor