The Great Keyboard Variations, Joanne Kong

Modlin Arts Presents 30th Anniversary Season

In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Modlin Center for the Arts, faculty keyboardist Joanne Kong presents the two acknowledged masterpieces of the variation genre, Bach’s Goldberg Variations on harpsichord, and Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations on piano. These works are often cited as the most significant and ambitious variation sets ever written for keyboard instruments, and Kong is the first artist to present these works together on their respective instruments.

Kong has performed to critical acclaim at numerous venues including the Los Angeles and Oregon Bach Festivals, Abbey Bach Festival, Bach Aria Festival, Texas Bach Collegium, Houston Harpsichord Recital Series, Memphis Chamber Music Society, among many others, as well as international and orchestral performances. A gifted collaborator, she has performed with numerous artists including the Shanghai String Quartet, flutist Eugenia Zukerman, cellists James Wilson, Christoph Wagner, and Ronald Crutcher, viola da gambist Lisa Terry, violinists Karen Johnson and Lindsey Strand-Polyak, soprano Ying Huang, baritones James Weaver and Zheng Zhou, and 4-time Grammy Award–winning ensemble Eighth Blackbird. She has been a master class pianist for numerous world-renowned artists and is in demand for master classes in keyboard performance, chamber music, and Baroque interpretation.  

Her versatility includes giving the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Michael Colgrass’s Side by Side, the first concerto written for a soloist in the dual role of pianist and harpsichordist, and she has the distinction of being the first artist to release a harpsichord-piano CD recording of Bach’s Goldberg and Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations, which will be on sale following the performance. 

Artist website: https://joannekongmusic.com/

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UR Students: Free
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