Named by The Economist as one of Twenty Living Polymaths, Sir Stephen Hough combines a distinguished career as a pianist and a longstanding international career with those of composer and writer. He was the first classical performer to be given a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2022 as part of the Queen's Birthday Honours, Hough became the first British-born pianist since 1977 to be awarded a Knighthood for Services to Music.
In a career spanning 40 years, Hough has played solo recitals and concertos with leading orchestras at major concert halls and festivals across five continents. Celebrating Rachmaninov's 150th anniversary in 2023, Hough performed the composer's five works for piano and orchestra, including his 30th appearance at the BBC Proms performing the First Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and a complete cycle in Brazil as the Artist in Residence of Orquestra Sinfonica do Estado de Sao Paulo. Additional recent and upcoming engagements include return appearances with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, Orchestre National de France, London Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony, Finnish Radio and the Seoul Philharmonic as well as the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center, the New York Philharmonic and the Minnesota Orchestra, and the St. Louis, Cincinnati, Detroit, Dallas and Houston symphonies in the US.
2024 sees the premiere of Hough's own piano concerto, entitled The World of Yesterday, inspired by Stefan Zweig's titular novel Die Welt von Gestern. Jointly commissioned by four orchestras, the concerto receives its World Premiere in Salt Lake City in January 2024 with Hough as the soloist performing with the Utah Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles.
The program will include:
CHAMINADE: Automne; Autre Fois; Les Sylvains
LISZT: Sonata in B Minor
HOUGH: Sonatina Nostalgica
CHOPIN: Sonata in B Minor
$85/75/65.
Presented by San Francisco Performances
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In a career spanning 40 years, Hough has played solo recitals and concertos with leading orchestras at major concert halls and festivals across five continents. Celebrating Rachmaninov's 150th anniversary in 2023, Hough performed the composer's five works for piano and orchestra, including his 30th appearance at the BBC Proms performing the First Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and a complete cycle in Brazil as the Artist in Residence of Orquestra Sinfonica do Estado de Sao Paulo. Additional recent and upcoming engagements include return appearances with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, Orchestre National de France, London Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony, Finnish Radio and the Seoul Philharmonic as well as the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center, the New York Philharmonic and the Minnesota Orchestra, and the St. Louis, Cincinnati, Detroit, Dallas and Houston symphonies in the US.
2024 sees the premiere of Hough's own piano concerto, entitled The World of Yesterday, inspired by Stefan Zweig's titular novel Die Welt von Gestern. Jointly commissioned by four orchestras, the concerto receives its World Premiere in Salt Lake City in January 2024 with Hough as the soloist performing with the Utah Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles.
The program will include:
CHAMINADE: Automne; Autre Fois; Les Sylvains
LISZT: Sonata in B Minor
HOUGH: Sonatina Nostalgica
CHOPIN: Sonata in B Minor
$85/75/65.
Presented by San Francisco Performances
Named by The Economist as one of Twenty Living Polymaths, Sir Stephen Hough combines a distinguished career as a pianist and a longstanding international career with those of composer and writer. He was the first classical performer to be given a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2022 as part of the Queen's Birthday Honours, Hough became the first British-born pianist since 1977 to be awarded a Knighthood for Services to Music.
In a career spanning 40 years, Hough has played solo recitals and concertos with leading orchestras at major concert halls and festivals across five continents. Celebrating Rachmaninov's 150th anniversary in 2023, Hough performed the composer's five works for piano and orchestra, including his 30th appearance at the BBC Proms performing the First Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and a complete cycle in Brazil as the Artist in Residence of Orquestra Sinfonica do Estado de Sao Paulo. Additional recent and upcoming engagements include return appearances with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, Orchestre National de France, London Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony, Finnish Radio and the Seoul Philharmonic as well as the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center, the New York Philharmonic and the Minnesota Orchestra, and the St. Louis, Cincinnati, Detroit, Dallas and Houston symphonies in the US.
2024 sees the premiere of Hough's own piano concerto, entitled The World of Yesterday, inspired by Stefan Zweig's titular novel Die Welt von Gestern. Jointly commissioned by four orchestras, the concerto receives its World Premiere in Salt Lake City in January 2024 with Hough as the soloist performing with the Utah Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles.
The program will include:
CHAMINADE: Automne; Autre Fois; Les Sylvains
LISZT: Sonata in B Minor
HOUGH: Sonatina Nostalgica
CHOPIN: Sonata in B Minor
$85/75/65.
Presented by San Francisco Performances
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In a career spanning 40 years, Hough has played solo recitals and concertos with leading orchestras at major concert halls and festivals across five continents. Celebrating Rachmaninov's 150th anniversary in 2023, Hough performed the composer's five works for piano and orchestra, including his 30th appearance at the BBC Proms performing the First Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and a complete cycle in Brazil as the Artist in Residence of Orquestra Sinfonica do Estado de Sao Paulo. Additional recent and upcoming engagements include return appearances with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, Orchestre National de France, London Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony, Finnish Radio and the Seoul Philharmonic as well as the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center, the New York Philharmonic and the Minnesota Orchestra, and the St. Louis, Cincinnati, Detroit, Dallas and Houston symphonies in the US.
2024 sees the premiere of Hough's own piano concerto, entitled The World of Yesterday, inspired by Stefan Zweig's titular novel Die Welt von Gestern. Jointly commissioned by four orchestras, the concerto receives its World Premiere in Salt Lake City in January 2024 with Hough as the soloist performing with the Utah Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles.
The program will include:
CHAMINADE: Automne; Autre Fois; Les Sylvains
LISZT: Sonata in B Minor
HOUGH: Sonatina Nostalgica
CHOPIN: Sonata in B Minor
$85/75/65.
Presented by San Francisco Performances
show less
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