Chamber Music Concert: Love Letters – The Love Triangle of Brahms & the Schumanns
$18 ($12 for museum members); includes admission to museum galleries before concert
- Annie Chang-Center, piano
- Erika Pierson, cello
Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann shared their musical talents and a deep friendship. They also both fell in love with Schumann’s beautiful wife, renowned pianist and composer Clara Schumann. In this concert we will explore the legendary relationships between these three romantic era giants, through their passionate music and writings.
Seattle cello/piano duo, International soloists and chamber musicians, cellist Erika Pierson and pianist Annie Chang-Center will play songs by Clara Schumann, Brahms Cello Sonata and Robert Schumann’s popular “Five Pieces in Folk Style.” Annie will also perform piano solo works by Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms. Award winning broadcast journalist John Sharify, the 2021 recipient of the coveted duPont-Columbia Award for the documentary “Bob’s Choice,” will read from the writings of the Schumanns and Brahms.
Tickets include admission to the museum, so you can come early and tour the galleries, then enjoy an hour of fine music surrounded by art, and have time to dine out afterward.
COVID-19 Protocols: For seated events only, Cascadia Art Museum requires proof of vaccination or proof of a negative COVID-19 test within the past 72 hours for visitors 12 and older. Masks are required while inside the Museum.
About Annie Chang-Center, piano
Violist/pianist Annie Chang-Center has performed with the San Francisco Symphony, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestras; and in England, Wales, France, Austria, Germany, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Taiwan. She is a member of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra and performs regularly in Washington, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.
About Erika Pierson, cello
Erika Pierson, cellist, grew up in the Seattle area, beginning cello at age 7. Her cello studies have taken her to Bloomington, Indiana, Berlin, Germany, London, England and Ann Arbor, Michigan under teachers including Richard Aaron, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Markus Nyikos, Eileen Croxford and Erling Blöndal Bengtsson. Erika has performed as a soloist in England, Germany, Spain and the United States. Currently, she spends her time teaching, freelancing in local orchestras, performing in chamber concerts and raising two daughters, two large dogs and chickens with her husband in Kirkland, WA.