UW Faculty Recital: Robin McCabe, piano – Around Robin

• Robin McCabe, piano

Maurice Ravel — Selected works
Gabriel Fauré — Selected works
Georges Bizet — Carmen (selections; arr. for 2 pianos, 8 hands)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Selected works
John Philip Sousa — The Stars and Stripes Forever (arr. for 2 pianos, 8 hands)

Professor Robin McCabe brings pianistic virtuosity to the Meany mainstage, performing solo works of Ravel and Fauré in the first half of her program. In the second half, she is joined by groups of her students in rousing transcriptions for two pianos, eight hands, including arrangements of Bizet's Carmen, a Mozart opera overture, and a barn-burning version of Stars and Stripes Forever.

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About Robin McCabe, piano

Robin McCabe has established herself as one of America's most communicative and persuasive artists, delighting audiences across the United States, Europe, Canada and in nine concert tours of the Far East. Winner of the International Concert Artists Guild Competition and recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation grant, Robin McCabe was the subject of a New Yorker magazine profile, "Pianist's Progress," later expanded into a book of the same title. A member of the Juilliard faculty from 1978 to 1987, she joined the piano faculty at the University of Washington in 1987 and was director of the School of Music from 1994 to 2009. McCabe holds a Michiko Morita Miyamoto Professorship in Piano at the UW.

https://music.washington.edu/people/robin-mccabe