Piano Break Archive
From July 2020 through December 2021, the Piano Break series of online recitals provided financial relief and audience access for Bay Area pianists who had lost income due to COVID-19.
Friday, 31 July, 2020 | 5:00 PM
Jeffrey LaDeur
Schubert Impromptu in F Minor | Walker Piano Sonata No. 3 | Chopin Scherzo No. 4 | Liszt Wiegenlied
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Friday, 7 August, 2020 | 5:00 PM
Monica Chew
Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou Homeless Wanderer | Bongani Ndodana-Breen Flowers in the Sand | Jason Moran Pas de Deux | Undine Smith Moore Before I’d be a Slave | Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins Battle of Manassas
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Friday, 14 August, 2020 | 5:00 PM
Daniel Glover
Clementi Sonata quasi Concerto in C major, Opus 33, No. 3 | Weber: Konzertstück | Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins Rêve charmant, Nocturne
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Friday, 21 August, 2020 | 5:00 PM
Louise Costigan-Kerns
Selections from Debussy Préludes, Book II | Selections from Adams Twenty-six Etudes for Solo Piano, Part II | Selections from Wild Virtuosic Etudes on popular songs by Gershwin
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Friday, 28 August, 2020 | 5:00 PM
Audrey Vardanega
Chopin Mazurka in C-sharp Minor | Brahms Intermezzo, Op. 117, No. 1 | Mozart Sonata in F Major, K. 533
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Friday, 4 September, 2020 | 5:00 PM
Jennifer Peringer
selections from Schumann Kinderszenen | selections from Still Seven Traceries | Dreyer Revolt and Reveal | Perry Ties; Round and Round; Flight | León Tumbáo | Wallen I Wouldn’t Normally Say
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Friday, 11 September, 2020 | 5:00 PM
Laura Magnani
Beethoven Pathétique Sonata | Chopin Polonaise in C-sharp Minor; Raindrop Prelude; Fantaisie-Impromptu | selections from Coleridge-Taylor “Twenty-four Negro Melodies” | Gerswhin Three Preludes
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Friday, 18 September, 2020 | 5:00 PM
Ian Scarfe
Chopin Raindrop Prelude | Price Placid Lake | Still Mystic Pool | Debussy Reflets dans l’eau | Chopin Barcarolle
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Friday, 25 September, 2020 | 5:00 PM
Rachel Kim
Beethoven Les Adieux | Barber Sonata for Cello and Piano with guest cellist Carlyn Kessler | Price Fantasie Negre No. 2
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Friday, 2 October, 2020 | 5:00 PM
Dale Tsang
Music by Bay Area composers: Elinor Armer, Allan Crossman, Gabriela Lena Frank, David Garner and Alden Jenks
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Friday, 9 October, 2020 | 5:00 PM
Chelsea Wong
Bach/Brahms Chaconne in D Minor for Left Hand | Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin | Peterson Hymn To Freedom
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Friday, 16 October, 2020 | 5:00 PM
Paul Schrage
Scott Joplin 2 Rags | Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges Adagio in F Minor | Samuel Coleridge-Taylor African Dances
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Friday, 23 October, 2020 | 5:00 PM
Calvin Hu
Schumann Fantasiestücke | Hsiao Memories of Home | Coleridge-Taylor Valse Suite | Chopin Mazurkas, Op. 59
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Friday, 30 October, 2020 | 5:00 PM
Derek Tam
J.S. Bach Italian Concerto | French Overture
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Friday, 6 November, 2020 | 5:00 PM
Anne Rainwater
Chopin Nocturne in E Minor, Op. posth. | Walker Theme and Variations from Piano Sonata No. 1 | Bach Partita No. 2
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Friday, 13 November, 2020 | 5:00 PM
Edward Simon
Byron Selected Études, Himm, and Basquiat | Monk Ask Me Now | Golson Whisper Not | Simon Collective Presence
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Friday, 20 November, 2020 | 5:00 PM
Lisa Spector
Bach/Brahms Chaconne in D Minor for Left Hand | Scriabin Prelude and Nocturne for Left Hand, Op. 9 | Davis Nocturne No. 2 for 8 Fingers | Chopin/Godowsky Etude Op. 25 No. 1 for Left Hand | Chopin 2 Etudes: F Minor, Op, 25 No. 2 and C Minor, Op. 10 No. 12
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Friday, 27 November, 2020 | 5:00 PM
Alison Lee
Joplin Solace: A Mexican Serenade | Scriabin Sonata No. 2 | Beethoven Sonata No. 7 | Kapustin Variations, Op. 41 | Strong Quarantine Polka
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Friday, 4 December, 2020 | 5:00 PM
Sarah Cahill
Regina Harris Baoicchi Piano Poems | Aida Shirazi Albumblatt | Mary Watkins Summer Days | George Lewis Endless Shout | Reena Esmail Rang de Basant
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Friday, 11 December, 2020 | 5:00 PM
William Wellborn
Scarlatti Three Sonatas | Chopin Two Waltzes | Vorisek Impromptu | Schubert 2 Impromptus
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Friday, 18 December, 2020 | 5:00 PM
Keisuke Nakagoshi
Evett Chaconne | Fujikura Spring and Asura (Akashi Version) | Crumb A Little Suite For Christmas | Tanaka Techno Etudes | Hailstork 8 Variations on Shalom Chaverim
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Friday, 5 February, 2021 | 5:00 PM
Robin Sutherland Tribute Concert
Pianists include Christopher Basso, Britt Day, Elizabeth Dorman, Jeffrey LaDeur, Jeffrey Kahane, Keisuke Nakagoshi, and Marc Shapiro performing works by Poulenc, Schumann, Rachmaninoff, Brahms, Mozart/Busoni, Schubert, and J.S. Bach.
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Friday, 12 February, 2021 | 5:00 PM
Ryan Sheng
Ludwig van Beethoven 32 Variations on an Original Theme in C minor | Franz Liszt Ballade No. 2 in B Minor
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Friday, 19 February, 2021 | 5:00 PM
Antonio Iturrioz
Godowsky Prelude and Fugue from the Cello Suite in C minor (Bach) | Etude for the Left Hand, Op. 10, No. 6 (Chopin) | Home Sweet Home (Bishop) | Liszt Réminiscences de Norma
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Friday, 5 March, 2021 | 5:00 PM
Robert Schwartz
Brahms Capriccios, Op. 76, No. 1 and No. 2 | Intermezzo, Op. 116, No. 4 | Intermezzo, Op. 119, No. 3 | Liszt Concert Etude in F Minor, “La leggierezza” | ChopinÉtude in C Major, Op. 10, No. 7 | Étude in E Minor, Op. 25, No. 5 | Étude in G-flat Major, Op. 10, No. 5 | Étude in A Minor, Op. 25, No. 11
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Friday, 12 March, 2021 | 5:00 PM
Solomon Ge
Robert Schumann “Des Abends” from Fantasiestücke | Ludwig van Beethoven I. Allegro from Piano Sonata No. 18 | Frédéric Chopin Scherzo No. 1 | Joseph Haydn Piano Sonata in A-flat Major | Sergei Prokofiev Piano Sonata #7
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Friday, 19 March, 2021 | 5:00 PM
Christopher Basso
Schumann Arabesque | Beethoven Bagatelle in G Major, Op. 126 | Juon “Das Heimchen” | Schubert Piano Sonata in C Minor, D. 958 | Debussy “Des pas sur la neige”
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Friday, 2 April, 2021 | 5:00 PM
Joe Warner
Scott Joplin Maple Leaf Rag | Thelonious Monk ‘Round Midnight | James P. Johnson You’ve Got To Be Modernistic | Bud Powell Tempus Fugit | Duke Ellington C Jam Blues | John Coltrane Giant Steps | Stevie Wonder Do I Do
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Friday, 9 April, 2021 | 5:00 PM
Kate Campbell
Ryan Brown Four Short Pieces for Solo Piano | Fernanda Aoki Navarro Impermanence, I. Mestiça | Leila Adu Colour Wheel | | Matthew Welch Etude No. 1 (world premiere) | David Lang Wed
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Friday, 16 April, 2021 | 5:00 PM
Zak Mustille
Bach Prelude and Fugue No. 23, BWV 868 | Charles-Valentin Alkan Piano Sonata, Op. 33, 2nd movement | Nicholas Pavkovic Bagatelle | Chopin Ballade No. 4 | Ives Sonata No. 1, 2nd movement
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Friday, 23 April, 2021 | 5:00 PM
Ken Iisaka
Chopin Barcarolle | Medtner Sonata-Ballada | Scriabin Piano Sonata No. 4
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Friday, 7 May, 2021 | 5:00 PM
Jenny Q Chai
Jarosław Kapuscinski with Camille Norton Oli’s Dream | Gyorgy Ligeti Musica Ricercata No.1 | Musica Ricercata No. 7 | Milica Paranosic Bubble (in trouble) | Jarosław Kapuscinski with Kacper Kowalski Side Effects (2017)
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Friday, 18 June, 2021 | 5:00 PM
Daniel Glover
Barber Canzone from Piano Concerto | Ravel Adagio from Piano Concerto in G | Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor | Oldham Andante tranquillo from Concerto for Piano
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Friday, 25 June, 2021 | 5:00 PM
Marcos Silva
Silva Chôro Sem Lágrimas (Crying Without Tears), A Simple Thing, Not Enough Notes, Caipirinha, All in it, Odalisque, Hathor, White & Black, Finale, Guinga-ish | Pixinguinha Lamento
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Friday, 2 July, 2021 | 5:00 PM
Robert Fleitz
Mattingly Selections from “Achilles Dreams of Ebbets Field”
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Friday, 9 July, 2021 | 5:00 PM
Tammy L. Hall & Leberta Lorál
Original compositions by Tammy L. Hall and American songbook standards from the Jazz repertoire.
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Friday, 16 July, 2021 | 5:00 PM
Hilda Huang
Beethoven Sonata Op. 14, No. 2 in G Major | Bach French Suite No. 5 in G Major | Still “Summerland” from Three Visions | Bach Toccata in D Major
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Friday, 23 July, 2021 | 5:00 PM
Misha Galant
Scriabin Piano Sonata No. 4 | Scriabin Piano Sonata No. 5 | Liszt Piano Sonata in B Minor
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Friday, 6 August, 2021 | 5:00 PM
Stasie Gonikberg
Brahms Six Piano Pieces, Op. 118 | Three Intermezzi, Op. 117 | Four Piano Pieces, Op. 119
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Friday, 20 August, 2021 | 5:00 PM
Nicholas Phillips
Griffes Fantasy Pieces, Op. 6 | The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan, Op. 8 | Roman Sketches, Op. 7
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Friday, 27 August, 2021 | 5:00 PM
Julia Den Boer
Saunders Mirror, Mirror on the Wall | Ravel Oiseaux tristes | Braxton Composition No. 5 | Janáček In the Mists
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Thursday, 4 November, 2021 | 6:00 PM
Tammy L. Hall
Tammy Hall plays and discusses her music/theater piece, Convergence, which chronicles a fictional meeting between four piano giants of the twentieth century: Mary Lou Williams, Nina Simone, Dorothy Donegan and Hazel Scott.
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Friday, 26 November, 2021 | 6:00 PM
Chelsea Wong
Frank Karnavalito No. 1 | Holland Intimacy of Harmony | Bacewicz Ten Concert Etudes for Piano: Nos. 1, 3 | Di Castri Thinking Eye | Ligeti Étude: Fanfares | Cuong Veil | Dutilleux Piano Sonata, III. Chorale et Variations
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Thursday, 2 December, 2021 | 6:00 PM
Allegra Chapman
Bach Partita in G Major, BWV 829 | Bacewicz Selections from Ten Studies for Piano | Burleigh Selections from From the Southland | Hailstork Scherzo No. 1
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Thursday, 9 December, 2021 | 6:00 PM
Jason Chiu
Bach Chaconne in D Minor, BWV 1004 | Ravel Jeux d’eau | Beethoven Sonata in E Major, Op. 109
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Thursday, 16 December, 2021 | 6:00 PM
Elizabeth Dorman
Bach English Suite No. 5 in E Minor | Scarlatti Sonatas in F Minor, K. 69 and D Major, K. 435 & 436 | de la Guerre Rondeaux and Passepied from “Céphale et Procris” | Couperin Passacaille in B Minor
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