Stephen Hough, piano
Date and Time
Friday Feb 28, 2014
8:00 PM - 8:00 PM EST
Location
Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport, MA 01966
Travelling by Car:
Rockport is 45 miles from downtown Boston.
Drive north on Route 128 (through two rotaries) to the traffic light in Gloucester.
At the traffic light, turn left onto Route 127.
Drive 4 miles to Rockport.
Continue through “Five Corners” onto Route 127A (Broadway) toward the harbor. It’s a slight vere to the right. At the stop sign at Mt. Pleasant Street (lighthouse in median), turn left and then bear left onto Main Street. The Shalin Liu Performance Center is on the right at 37 Main Street.
Travelling by Train:
Rockport is accessible by commuter rail from Boston and other Northshore towns. The commuter rail originates from North Station on the Green line in Boston. The train station is ½ mile walk to the concert hall.
Walking Directions from Rockport Train Station:
Leave Rockport Commuter Rail Station and turn left onto Railroad Avenue. Turn right onto King Street for and then turn right onto Beach Street (Atlantic Ocean and Front Beach on other side of Beach Street). Follow Beach Street and the Shalin Liu Performance Center will be on your left after you’ve merged onto Main Street. The Congregational Church is across the street.
Contact Information
978.546.7391
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Description
Over a long distinguished career as one of the world's leading concert pianists, Stephen Hough combines an exceptional facility and tonal palette with a uniquely inquisitive musical personality, and his musical achievements have resulted in many awards and accolades for his concerts and a discography of more than 50 recordings. The first classical performing artist to win a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, he also won the Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist Award in 2010. He has performed around the world in recitals, as a soloist with practically all the major European and American orchestras, as well as festivals including Aspen, Edinburgh, Mostly Mozart, Ravinia, Salzburg, Tanglewood, and the BBC Proms. A Hyperion recording artist, his recordings have garnered international prizes including the Diapason d'Or, several Grammy nominations, and eight Gramophone Magazine Awards including ‘Record of the Year,' and the Gramophone ‘Gold Disc' Award, which named his complete Saint-Saëns Piano Concertos as the best recording of the past 30 years. As a composer, his compositions include chamber, choral, symphonic, instrumental and solo piano works. ''The most perfect piano playing conceivable'' The Guardian ''A virtuoso who begins where other leave off'' The Washington Post Program BRAHMS: 7 Fantasies, Op. 116 CHOPIN: Ballades (Complete set of works) STRAUSS: Träumerei, Op. 9, No. 4 SCHOENBERG: Six Little Pieces, Op. 19 WAGNER: Albumblatt BRUCKNER: Erinnerung Tickets: $58, $48, $39
