Pianist, writer, composer, and recording artist, Stephen Hough won a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in 2001. He has appeared with most of the major European and American orchestras and plays recitals regularly in the major halls and concert series around the world. He is also a guest at festivals such as Salzburg, Mostly Mozart, Aspen, Ravinia, Tanglewood, Blossom, Hollywood Bowl, Edinburgh, Aldeburgh and the BBC Proms, where he has made over 15 concerto appearances.

An exclusive Hyperion recording artist, many of Stephen Hough’s catalogue of over 50 CDs have garnered international prizes. He is also an avid writer of scholarly and critically-acclaimed CD liner notes and articles for music publications — he has written for The Guardian, The Times, and was invited by the Telegraph Media Group in December 2008 to start a cultural blog. In 2007, Hough’s cello concerto “The Loneliest Wilderness” was premiered by Steven Isserlis and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and two choral works – Mass of Innocence and Experience and Missa Mirabilis – were performed at London’s Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral respectively.

A resident of London, Stephen Hough is a visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London and holds the International Chair of Piano Studies at his alma mater, the Royal Northern College in Manchester.

Ticket Prices: $20, $36, $48, $72 / Student discount available

Pianist Stephen Hough will perform:
Beethoven “Moonlight” Sonata
Hough Sonata for Piano (broken branches)
Scriabin Sonatas No. 4 and 5
Liszt: Sonata in B Minor