Public Concerts

 

Evening concerts at Forte | Piano 2025 are free and open to all — no registration required. Join us for four nights of music featuring world-class artists and rare historical instruments. 

Concerts start at 7:30pm in Kiplinger Theater at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Seating is available on a first come, first served basis — no tickets or reservations needed.

 

 

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Tuesday, August 5

Karim Sulayman (tenor) and Yi-heng Yang (fortepiano), will perform an expressive set of Schubert Lieder. They will be followed by cellist David Hardy and fortepianist Lambert Orkis, who will play intimate works by Brahms and Schumann.  

Featured instruments: Joseph Simon, 1835,  John Broadwood & Sons, 1865

Wednesday, August 6

Former students of Malcolm Bilson, including David Breitman, Petra Somlai, Tuija Hakkila and Zvi Meniker, will perform music by Schubert, Robert Schumann, and other composers.

Featured instruments: piano after Johann Schantz ca.1800

Friday, August 8

Sylvia Berry and Ursula Dütschler will present a selection of music for fortepiano and harpsichord by Jean-François Tapray (1738-1822), Anne Louise Brillon de Jouy (1744-1824), and Armand-Louis Couperin (1727-1789), after which Duo CPE (consisting of Andréa Walker, soprano, and Mikhail Grazhdanov, fortepiano) will perform songs and arias by Haydn. Tom Beghin and Luca Montebugnoli will conclude proceedings with a rendition of Beethoven’s rarely-heard four-hand fortepiano arrangement of his Grande Fugue for string quartet.

Featured instruments: piano after Gottfried Silbermann, 1749, Joseph Simon, 1835, piano after Johann Schantz ca.1800

Saturday, August 9

An evening of powerful and lyrical chamber works by Jane Mary Guest (c.1762-1836), Emilie Mayer (1812-1883), and Louise Farrenc (1804-1875), performed by Yi-heng Yang, Aisslinn Nosky, Gesa Kordes, Stephanie Vial, Heather Miller Lardin, and Andrew Willis.

Featured instruments: John Broadwood & Sons, 1799, Pleyel et Cie,1843

 

 

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