Paul Lewis, piano
Part of the Skyline Piano Artist Series
Friday, April 16, 2027 at 7:30pm CDT
Galvin Recital Hall
“His playing is direct and unpretentious, with a quiet charisma and a sense of deeper feeling beneath the surface.”
—The Classical Review
Paul Lewis is internationally regarded as one of the leading musicians of his generation. His cycles of core piano works by Beethoven and Schubert have received unanimous critical and public acclaim worldwide and consolidated his reputation as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of the central European classical repertoire. His numerous awards have included his selection as the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Instrumentalist of the Year, two Edison Awards, three Gramophone Awards, and the Diapason d’Or de l’Année. He holds honorary degrees from Liverpool, Edge Hill, and Southampton Universities, and was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours. He works regularly as soloist with the world’s great orchestras and has played at prestigious festivals such as Tanglewood, Ravinia, Salzburg, and the BBC Proms, where in 2010 he became the first person to play a complete Beethoven piano concerto cycle in a single season. His multi-award-winning discography for Harmonia Mundi includes the complete Beethoven piano sonatas, concertos, the Diabelli Variations, and all of Schubert’s major piano works from the last six years of his life. He is co-Artistic Director of Midsummer Music, an annual chamber music festival held in Buckinghamshire, UK.
Skyline Piano Artist Series single tickets on sale Monday, August 3.
Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall
Address
70 Arts Circle Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
United States
About
Located in the Ryan Center for the Musical Arts, this 400-seat hall features a 40-foot glass wall offering views of Lake Michigan and the Chicago skyline. Undulating walls of Forest Stewardship Council–certified wood, covered with a thin layer of African moabi wood, provide optimal acoustics, and the hall is equipped with state-of-the-art sound and video equipment for recording.
