Meany Center presents: Jonathan Biss: Transfiguration
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Meany Center for the Performing Arts,
Seattle,
WA,
United States
$25-$70 ($10 UW student)
- Jonathan Biss, piano
Franz Schubert
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Piano Sonata in C minor, D. 958
Tyshawn Sorey — For Anthony Braxton
Franz Schubert — Piano Sonata No. 21 in B-flat major, D. 960
Tyshawn Sorey — For Anthony Braxton
Franz Schubert — Piano Sonata No. 21 in B-flat major, D. 960
A superb pianist with "impeccable taste and a formidable technique" (The New Yorker), Jonathan Biss channels his deep musical curiosity to connect the pillars of the repertoire with new compositions.
He returns to Meany with Schubert's last major composition for piano—addressing the mysteries of life and death with directness and astonishing beauty—and a new work by Tyshawn Sorey, "a composer of radical and seemingly boundless ideas" (The Wall Street Journal) who often melds composition and improvisation.
"One can immerse oneself in the greatest music of the past and work to ensure that the present and future are more just, and so much richer for it." — Jonathan Biss