Igor Lipinski and Owen Zhou in Concert

Join us for an afternoon early twentieth century masterpieces for solo piano in the intimate and enchanting setting of the Maybeck Studio. Igor Lipinski and Owen Zhou return to the Bay Area after acclaimed performances at Old First Concerts to present a richly diverse cross-section of musical languages from the first half of the last century, including Scriabin's rarely performed but intoxicating Eight Sonata and excerpts from Szymanowski's poetic Mazurkas op.50.

Igor Lipinski Plays: 
Shostakovich Prelude and Fugue in e minor op. 87 no. 4
Stravinsky 1924 Sonata
Szymanowski Mazurkas op. 50 no. 1-4
Janáček 1. X. 1905 Sonata

~Intermission~

Owen Zhou Plays:
Scriabin Preludes op. 22 and op. 27
Eighth Sonata op. 66

Igor Lipinski and Owen Zhou at the Maybeck

Saturday, August 26, 2017 at 3:00pm

This concert is $25 General Admission/$15 Students & Seniors

Seating is limited. Get your tickets here.

Audrey Vardanega and Chase Park in Concert

Praised as a “[musically] eloquent” (San Francisco Classical Voice) player “with the kind of freedom, authority, and strength…that one expects from the world’s finest pianists” and a “forcefully established…major talent” (The Berkeley Daily Planet), twenty-year-old pianist and composer Audrey Vardanega was born and raised in Oakland, California and began formal piano training with acclaimed pianist Robert Schwartz at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music from 2002 to 2013. Since then, she has also worked with notable pianists such as Gary Graffman, Alain Planés, Yefim Bronfman, Wojciech Switala, and Richard Goode. Her past primary instructors include former assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic Seymour Lipkin, former Head of Music at the BBC World Service Jeremy Siepmann, and Professor Christopher Elton of London's Royal Academy of Music. She currently studies with Victor Rosenbaum and Maria Asteriadou in New York City. 

Audrey Vardanega and Chase Park at the Maybeck

Sunday, August 13, 2017 at 3:00pm

This concert is $20 General Admission at the door.