Sylvia Adalman Faculty Recital Series: Michael Kannen, cello & Seth Knopp, piano

• Michael Kannen, cello
• Seth Knopp, piano

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About Michael Kannen, cello

Cellist Michael Kannen has distinguished himself as a musician and educator of uncommon accomplishment who is comfortable in widely diverse musical situations and venues. He was a founding member of the Brentano String Quartet and for seven years performed with that group on concert stages around the world, on radio and television, and on recordings. During those first seven years, the Brentano Quartet was awarded the first Cleveland Quartet Award, the Naumburg Chamber Music Award, the Martin E. Segal Award from Lincoln Center, and the Royal Philharmonic Society's award for best debut recital in England for the 1997-1998 season. With the Brentano Quartet, Kannen appeared regularly in such venues as Alice Tully Hall in New York, the Library of Congress in Washington, Wigmore Hall in London, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Chatelet Theater in Paris, and the Sydney Opera House.

About Seth Knopp, piano

Seth Knopp, piano (Putney, VT), was a founding member of the award-winning Peabody Trio, winner of the 1989 Naumburg Award and the Peabody Institute’s Ensemble-in-Residence from 1987-2017. After making its Alice Tully Hall debut in 1990, the trio performed on the most important chamber music series, nationally and internationally. The trio's reputation as champions of new music allowed them the opportunity to commission and perform the music of many of today's most inspired musical voices. Since 2010 Knopp has been the artistic director of Soundings: New Music at the Nasher, a critically acclaimed series of concerts at the Nasher Sculpture Center, drawing on the relationship between musical traditions and innovation, and the unique lens through which music helps us better understand our world. Now in his fourth decade on the faculty at the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, Seth serves on the piano and chamber music faculties at the Peabody Institute.