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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