Leon fleisher and katherine jacobson program today
Olaf College graduate is organizing the series with all artists donating their performances to benefit local and global missions. She will be loaning her Steinway Concert Grand for the events. Katherine concertized world-wide with her husband, pianist and conductor, Leon Fleisher. Virtuoso pianist Thomas Hecht has recently returned to his home state of Maryland after a twenty year piano professorship in Singapore.
His concert career continues to take him across the globe. When in Minnesota, he will perform a stunning program including works of Rachmaninov and Ravel.
Leon fleisher and katherine jacobson program today: Trinity Lutheran Long Lake
Thomas is hoping for extremely cold weather after all those years in steamy Singapore, and is therefore grateful for a February recital date! Cellist Evan Drachman is the grandson of legendary cellist and humanist Gregor Piatigorsky. As head of the Piatigorsky Foundation , Evan brings concerts into venues across the country where classical music is rarely heard such as retirement communities, schools, churches, synagogues, libraries, museums, hospitals and prisons.
The Piatigorsky Foundation presents over two hundred concerts annually in twenty two states. His program will feature the beautiful Schumann Cello Concerto with piano orchestral reduction.