Brooklyn, NY
Free Event: Beethoven Sonatas VISat, Feb 27, 2027, 4:00 pm
Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library, Dweck Center
1 hour, no intermission
Pianist Gilles Vonsattel performs the complete Beethoven sonata cycle in 14 concerts across the season. We are glad to bring Sonatas No. 18, No. 24, and No. 30 to the Community Concert Series. He plays Beethoven with technical mastery, respect for the style, and real insight. He stands in the line of the composer's greatest interpreters.
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Presented in partnership with BPL Presents. For more information and to register, please visit https://www.bklynlibrary.org/bpl-presents
Program
Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770–1827)Sonata No. 18 in E-flat major for Piano, Op. 31, No. 3, "The Hunt"
(1801-02)Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770–1827)Sonata No. 24 in F-sharp major for Piano, Op. 78, “À Thérèse”
(1809)Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770–1827)Sonata No. 30 in E major for Piano, Op. 109
(1820)
Gilles Vonsattel
Swiss-born American pianist Gilles Vonsattel boasts remarkable versatility and artistic originality. Winner of an Avery Fisher Career Grant, the 2016 Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award, and top prizes in the Naumburg and Geneva competitions, he has graced prestigious stages worldwide, enthralling audiences with recitals and chamber performances, and collaborating with renowned orchestras including the Munich Philharmonic and the Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco symphonies. As a champion of new music, he has premiered compositions by celebrated composers such as Jörg Widmann, Heinz Holliger, Anthony Cheung, and George Benjamin. He is an alum of CMS’s Bowers Program and has earned degrees from Columbia University and the Juilliard School. Today, Vonsattel shares his passion for music as a Professor of Piano at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
