UW Faculty Recital: Robin McCabe, piano

Robert Schumann — Piano Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22
George Gershwin / Earl Wild — 7 Virtuoso Etudes

Robin McCabe, piano

Schumann – Sonata in G minor
Wild – Virtuoso Etudes on Songs of George Gershwin

Piano professor Robin McCabe performs the fiery G minor Sonata of Robert Schumann, with its seldom-played finale, Presto Passionato, and the beguiling, finger-busting Virtuoso Etudes on Songs of George Gershwin, transcribed by Earl Wild.

About Robin McCabe

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