Renowned pianist Jonathan Biss will perform in the next Cornell Concert Series (CCS) production on Friday, February 21 at 7:30 p.m. in Bailey Hall.  

Credit: Robin Herrod/McKnight Center for the Performing Arts

Praised as “a superb pianist and also an eloquent and insightful music writer” (The Boston Globe) with “impeccable taste and a formidable technique” (The New Yorker), Biss has appeared internationally as a soloist with the Los Angeles and New York Philharmonics, the Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco Symphonies, and the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras, as well as the London Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw, the Philharmonia, and Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, among many other ensembles.

Biss has served as the co-artistic director of the Marlboro Music School and Festival alongside pianist Mitsuko Uchida since 2018. He served on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music for ten years and has been a guest professor at schools such as the Guildhall SOMAD and the New England Conservatory of Music. As author of Unquiet: My Life with Beethoven, he examines music and his own life’s journey through the lens of Beethoven’s last piano sonatas. 

Biss is a teacher, musical thinker, and performer whose repertoire ranges from the core canon to contemporary commissions. At Cornell, he will be performing works by Franz Schubert and Tyson Gholston Davis. 

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