Acclaimed Scottish pianist Steven Osborne will perform the late sonatas of Schubert (D. 960) and Beethoven (Op. 110 and 111) at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the University of Hawaii at Hilo Performing Arts Center.
Acclaimed Scottish pianist Steven Osborne will perform the late sonatas of Schubert (D. 960) and Beethoven (Op. 110 and 111) at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the University of Hawaii at Hilo Performing Arts Center.
Osborne is generally regarded as the preeminent British pianist of his generation and one of the greatest in the world.
His career took flight in the mid-1990s when he won first prize at the Naumburg International Competition (New York) and Clara Haskil (Switzerland). He last performed in Hilo in 1997.
Osborne selected a profound and challenging program for his Hilo concert. Franz Schubert’s last sonata is generally considered his greatest achievement in the form and one of the greatest of the classical-romantic sonatas. And nearly 200 years after they were composed, Beethoven’s final sonatas remain a Mount Everest for pianists.
Tickets for Tuesday’s concert are $25 (general), $20 (60 and older) and $10 (students) and are available at The Most Irresistible Shop, Music Exchange and the Performing Arts Center box office in Hilo. Remaining tickets will be available at the door after 6:45 p.m.
Osborne also will lead a master class for East Hawaii piano students from 4-6 p.m. Monday at Hilo’s First United Protestant Church. The public is invited. Osborne’s wife, Jean Johnson, a professional clarinetist, will meet with band students at Kamehameha Schools that morning.