Musical Days Productions, Mari Kodama, and Kent Nagano announced “A Portrait of BEETHOVEN: 32 Sonatas for Piano,” a four-concert festival featuring world-class performers in a celebration of the anniversary of Beethoven’s 250th birthday, October 9–10, 2021. The festival presents Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas chronologically, inviting attendees to experience the composer’s iconic genius and compositional development.
Featuring seventeen renowned pianists from the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world, “A Portrait of BEETHOVEN” stems from Musical Days in Forest Hill, a unique chamber music festival, that originated in 2002 as a series of private concerts presented by the virtuoso pianist Mari Kodama and conductor Kent Nagano. With a reputation as a benchmark interpreter of Beethoven and one of few female pianists to record the composer’s complete sonatas, Kodama developed “A Portrait of BEETHOVEN” to appeal to aficionados and novices alike.