Schedule

On this year’s BARS Pride Concert, I am proud to be the piano soloist in Leonard Bernstein’s “Age of Anxiety” (Symphony no. 2). Dawn Harms conducts.

Saturday evening at 7:30 p.m., at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

In the first solo appearance I have given in many years, in Baltimore — my home town — I will perform favorite works of Mozart, Chopin, Federico Longás and George Gershwin. I will also talk about my early years in Baltimore and my life as the most prominent transgender classical musician of our time.

It feels urgent to do so, at a time when LGBTQIA+ folks are being demonized as never before. This is why we must all stand proudly, for Pride.

I am so profoundly touched to give this personal appearance in the city where my musical artistry was formed.

This concert begins at 3:00 p.m.

Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor op. 18, with conductor Jean-Marie Zeitouni.

Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor op. 18, with conductor Jean-Marie Zeitouni.

Solo Recital of works by Mozart, Brahms, Ravel and Chabrier. I will also give a Master Class for the Adelphi students.

Solo Recital at the Kracum Performance Hall, Friday, April 7 at 7:30 p.m. featuring works of  Mozart, Brahms, Joaquín Turina, Maurice Ravel, and Emmanuel Chabrier.

Master Class on Saturday, April 8.

Solo Recital tribute to the legendary Italian pianist-composer Ferruccio Busoni. I will perform the composer’s autobiographical Seven Elegies (1905), as well as his adapted edition of the six Paganini Etudes of Franz Liszt.

This event is dedicated to the memory of Hannah Busoni, the composer’s daughter-in-law, who inspired and encouraged me when I was a young student in New York City.

Florence Price’s Piano Concerto in One Movement (1934). The program will be recorded for Canadian nationwide broadcast on the CBC.

Duo recital with the magnificent violinist Stephanie Chase. We will perform works of Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Kreisler and others; and featuring the towering Sonata for Violin and Piano of Richard Strauss, and the “Sonata Española” of Joaquín Turina.

I am truly thrilled to perform one of the most beautiful and evergreen Piano Quintets of the chamber music repertoire, by French composer Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947), in my première performance with the marvelous Kontras Quartet of Chicago. The concert is free to the public and will be broadcast live on Chicago’s WFMT-FM. Don’t miss this rare bonbon!

They are:
Eleanor Bartsch, violin
François Henkins, violin
Ben Weber, viola
Jean Hatmaker, cello