Sir András Schiff, piano concert

Hungarian-born classical pianist and conductor Sir András Schiff has been honored with every major musical award during the course of his 45-year career – a Grammy Award, a Gramophone Award, a Golden Mozart Medal of the International Stiftung Mozarteum (of which there have been only four previous winners in 70 years) and the Wigmore Hall Medal just to name a few. Schiff is one of the most renowned living interpreters of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann. His many recordings include much of the keyboard music of Bach; music of Domenico Scarlatti, Ernst von Dohnányi, Johannes Brahms, and Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky; the complete piano sonatas of Mozart and Schubert; the complete piano concertos of Felix Mendelssohn with Charles Dutoit and of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (with the Camerata Academica Salzburg led by Sándor Végh); the complete Beethoven piano concertos with the Staatskapelle Dresden led by Bernard Haitink; and the complete piano concertos of Béla Bartók with the Budapest Festival Orchestra led by Iván Fischer.

Schiff’s Spivey Hall program includes Mendelssohn’s Fantasy in F-sharp minor, Op. 28; Beethoven’s Sonata in F-sharp major, Op. 78; Brahms’s 8 Piano Pieces, Op. 76 and 7 Fantasies, Op. 116; and Bach’s English Suite No. 6 in D minor, BWV 811.

Tickets are priced at $75 (with discounts for subscribers, groups, students and Georgia educators), and are available for purchase now.

A dinner prior to the performance is available for an additional fee of $40 per person. The dinner will be held at 5:45 p.m. in the Harry S. Downs Education Center; price includes entrée, beverage and dessert. The deadline for purchasing dinner tickets is noon on Monday, October 23, 2017. Advanced purchase through the box office is required; dinner may not be purchased the day of concert.

Sir András Schiff’s recital is the Season 27 Spivey Memorial Concert, made possible through the generosity of The Walter and Emilie Spivey Foundation, and dedicated with deep gratitude to the memory of the extraordinary Clayton County civic leaders and philanthropists Walter Boone Spivey and Emilie Parmalee Spivey, the visionary founders of Spivey Hall.