A four-session online workshop with master musician Paul Hersh for conversations about essential piano repertoire with four pianist-colleagues. You’ll get a revealing inside look at how musicians find meaning in playing.
Wednesday, April 20, 2022 | 5:30 p.m. Pacific
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata, Op. 109 (1820) – 3. Theme and Variations
Pianist: Christopher Basso
Wednesday, April 27, 2022 | 5:30 p.m. Pacific
Franz Schubert
Drei Klavierstucke, D. 946 (1828) – No. 1 Allegro assai
Pianist: Hye Yeong Min
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 | 5:30 p.m. Pacific
Frederic Chopin
Ballade No. 3 in A-Flat Major, Op. 47 (1841)
Pianist: Laura Magnani
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 | 5:30 p.m. Pacific
Maurice Ravel
Miroirs (1905) – 3. Une barque sur l’ocean
Pianist: Monica Chew
A native of New York, Paul Hersh has played both the piano and viola since he was six years old. He studied viola with William Primrose and piano with Leonard Shure and Edward Steuermann. From 1961 to 1971 he was violist and pianist with the Lenox Quartet, and he made his piano debut at Carnegie Recital Hall in 1964. Mr. Hersh has performed with many orchestras, including the Boston and San Francisco Symphonies and the New York Philharmonic, as well as in chamber groups and solo recitals. Hersh, who attended Yale University, is a former faculty member of Grinnell College and SUNY at Binghamton, and has been artist-in-residence and visiting faculty at numerous universities and festivals, including the University of California at Davis, Temple University, Oregon State University, University of Western Washington, Berkshire (now Tanglewood) Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival and the Spoleto (Italy) Festival. As a decades-long member of the piano and viola faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, he has inspired many generations of musicians through his unique humanist approach to music-teaching. For the past several years Paul has been hosting a weekly piano class for his student/colleagues. They play music they’re working on, listen and discuss together, and explore the meaning of the music from a pianist’s point of view. Our workshops will invite you into this conversation and give all a chance to be part of this musical conversation.