Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2
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Marin Alsop
For Marin Alsop’ s bio., please see pg. 7.
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2
Music Center At Strathmore Thursday, March 2, 2017— 8 pm
Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Friday, March 3, 2017— 8 pm Saturday, March 4, 2017— 8 pm
Anna Clyne
Marin Alsop, conductor Hélène Grimaud, piano
Within Her Arms
Robert Schumann Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, opus 97,“ Rhenish” Lebhaft Scherzo: Sehr mässig Nicht schnell Feierlich Lebhaft
INTERMISSION
Johannes Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major, opus 83 Allegro non troppo Allegro appassionato Andante Allegretto grazioso
HÉLÈNE GRIMAUD
The concert will end at approximately 10pm on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Concert Supporting Sponsor: The Ivy Hotel / Magdalena
Steinway & Sons is the Official Piano of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
Mat Hennek
Hélène Grimaud
Hélène Grimaud’ s recent performance highlights include collaborations with the Turner Prize-winning artist Douglas Gordon: a large-scale installation at New York’ s Park Avenue Armory and a piece at the Manchester International Festival, where she shared the stage with actress Charlotte Rampling.
Ms. Grimaud also appeared at the opening night gala of the new Philharmonie de Paris and at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in New York State, where she was 2015 Artist-in-Residence. Her recital at the Philharmonie Essen earned her the 2015 Klavier-Festival Ruhr Prize. In 2016 – 2017, Ms. Grimaud appears with the Rotterdam Philharmonic and performs concertos in the US and Australia as well as recitals in Germany and Switzerland with cellist Sol Gabetta. She performs music from her latest album, Water, in Scottsdale, La Jolla and Baltimore, with recitals in Stuttgart, Basel, Nuremberg, Lisbon, Rome, Monte Carlo and Stockholm.
In 2016, Ms. Grimaud released Water, a live recording bringing together works by nine composers on Deutsche Grammophon. She has also recorded the two Brahms piano concertos— with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic— on the same label.
Ms. Grimaud was born in Aix-en- Provence and began her piano studies at the local conservatory. She was accepted into the Paris Conservatoire at just 13 and won first prize in piano performance three years later. She continued to study with György Sándor and Leon Fleisher and in 1987, gave her debut recital in Tokyo.
Ms. Grimaud established the Wolf Conservation Center in 1996, in upstate
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