The Historical Piano Concerts series is built on the Frederick Collection of Historical Grand Pianos by major makers in Vienna, Paris and Leipzig, ca. 1790-1928. The concerts’ 36th spring season will feature three solo piano programs, and one concert each, of piano with violin, with tenor voice, and with clarinet, performed by nationally / internationally distinguished musicians. Each concert showcases one restored original piano in the Frederick Collection, in music closely related to that piano’s time and place.

Spring Series
April 24: Constantine Finehouse: Four sets of solo piano pieces by Brahms; Streicher piano, Vienna, 1871

May 1: Ivan Gusev (program and piano to be chosen)

May 8: Stanley Wilson, tenor with Hugh Keelan, piano; Erard piano, Paris, 1893. Songs by Fauré, Debussy and Nadia Boulanger, piano solo works by Fauré.

May 15: Jerilyn Jorgensen, violin with Cullan Bryant, piano; Works by Schubert, Beethoven and Mendelssohn. Piano by Bösendorfer, Vienna, ca. 1830.

May 22: Thomas Pandolfi; Music by Chopin, with a piece by Bach, arranged by Leopold Godowsky, and  a baroque organ piece arranged by Carl Tausig. Piano by Erard, Paris, 1877.

May 29: Maksim Shtrykov, clarinet, Misuzu Tanaka, piano Two Brahms Sonatas; Schumann’s  Fantasiestücke op.73 and Drei Romanzen Op.94

During the pandemic, we will ask to see vaccination certificates, including booster shots, and require all attendees to be masked. If indoor gatherings are restricted or prohibited, the musicians will still play their programs; we will make videos of all concerts, with or without live audiences, and post the videos on our YouTube channel, Music from the Frederick Collection, where, with last fall’s concerts, they can be enjoyed at no charge.