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Award-winning pianist Sara Daneshpour will perform Chopin’s magnificent 24 Etudes along with music by Ligeti at 8 p.m. on Friday, Mar. 11, at FIU’s Wertheim School of Music.
From Chopin’s opus 10 and opus 25, these 24 treasures are the most beloved set of etudes in the classical piano repertoire. This program is perfect for all who love piano music.
About Sara Daneshpour
“She created transfixing poetry.” (The Washington Post); Pianist Sara Daneshpour has worldwide audiences and critics spellbound with her “blazing technique, power, expressivity, imagination and stage presence” (The New York Concert Review), establishing herself as one of the most refined artists of her generation.
Highlights of current and recent seasons include performances with the Mariinsky Orchestra, Israel Camerata and Israel Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, and Britt Festival Orchestra.
Daneshpour has appeared in solo recitals at the Southbank Centre in London, Musée d’Orsay, Salle Cortot, Mazzoleni Concert Hall in Toronto, Copenhagen Summer Festival, Gilmore Keyboard Festival, San Francisco Chamber Music, Mariinsky International Piano Festival in St. Petersburg, and International Keyboard Festival in New York.
In orchestra concerts and solo recitals, Sara stuns audiences with an unusually wide repertoire ranging from Bach to Boulez, with her dazzling technique and an exceptional level of artistic depth and sincerity. Her performances, often described as “a powerhouse account, producing enough tone for two pianists in the process” (Baltimore Sun), are critically acclaimed as lavishing
Her current solo program of Etudes by Chopin and Ligeti combines two of the most intriguing and most demanding works ever written for the piano.
Daneshpour has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Germany, Russia, Finland, France, Sweden, Spain, Israel, and Japan. She has been heard at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC; Carnegie Hall in New York, and at the Great Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.
Daneshpour is the third prize winner of the 2017 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition, along with the 2014 prize winner at the Seoul International Music Competition in Seoul, Korea and 2013 Laureate of the ProLiance Energy Classical Fellowship Awards of the American Pianists Association. She is the first prize winner of the XII Concours International de Musique du Maroc, second prize of the 2007 William Kapell International Piano Competition, and first prize and Gold Medal winner of the 2007 International Russian Music Piano Competition.
Born in Washington, DC, into an Iranian-American family, Sara Daneshpour has studied under the direction of Leon Fleisher at the Curtis Institute of Music, with Yoheved Kaplinsky and Oleg Volkov at the Juilliard School, and with Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
