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Emanuel Ax, piano

  • Folly Theater 300 West 12th Street Kansas City, MO, 64105 United States (map)

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Returning Series favorite Emanuel Ax commands the stage each time he sits down at the piano. One of the most respected and awarded pianists of all time, his performance will mark over ten times, Manny has graced the Series with his unforgettable interpretations.

He has received GRAMMY® Awards for the second and third volumes of his cycle of Haydn’s piano sonatas. He has also made a series of Grammy-winning recordings with cellist Yo-Yo Ma of the Beethoven and Brahms sonatas for cello and piano. In the 2004/05 season Mr. Ax contributed to an International EMMY® Award-Winning BBC documentary commemorating the Holocaust that aired on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. In 2013, Mr. Ax’s recording Variations received the Echo Klassik Award for Solo Recording of the Year (19th Century Music/Piano).

Mr. Ax is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and holds honorary doctorates of music from Skidmore College, New England Conservatory of Music, Yale University, and Columbia University.

Program (subject to change)

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 Pathetique

SCHOENBERG 3 Pieces Op. 11

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 2, No. 2

SCHOENBERG Drei Klavierstücke (1894)

SCHOENBERG 6 Little Pieces Op. 19

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 Appassionata


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