Music Programs

PIANO PROJECT

Now in our 16th year of the Bloomingdale Piano Project Concerts, our theme which explores the natural elements of Earth, Air, Fire & Water ignites the imagination through suggestion and sound illustrations. With music from every style of the piano repertoire, the Four Elements can be heard in the floating chords of the French Impressionists to the fiery turbulence of the German Romantics to the vitality of the Spanish Dance to the soulful Russian Melody. These are expressions of the vast piano literature that cover every area of the human experience in more than three centuries.

Monica Verona, Artistic Director

COMPOSERS FEATURED IN PIANO PROJECT 2023

  • Isaac Albéniz: 1860-1909 – Spain
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: 1685-1750 – Germany
  • Amy Beach: 1867-1944 – USA
  • Ludwig van Beethoven: 1770-1827 – Germany
  • Albert Biehl: 1835-1899 – Germany
  • Margaret Bonds: 1913-1972 – USA
  • Johannes Brahms: 1833-1897 – Germany
  • Friedrich Burgmüller: 1806-1874 – Germany
  • Edna Mae Burnam: 1907-2007 – USA
  • Claude Debussy: 1862-1918 – France
  • Albert Ellmenreich: 1816-1905 – Germany
  • Nancy Faber: b. 1955 – USA
  • Gabriel Fauré: 1845-1924 – France
  • Leila Fletcher: 1899-1988 – Canada
  • Jon George: USA
  • Edvard Grieg: 1843-1907 – Norway
  • Stephen Heller: 1813-1888 – Hungary
  • David Hirschberg: 1899-? – USA
  • Scott Joplin: 1868-1917 – USA
  • Dmitry Kabalevsky: 1904-1987 – Russia
  • David Kraehenbuehl: b.1923 – USA
  • M. Krutitski: Russia
  • Alan Menken: b. 1949 – USA
  • Michel Mauléart Monton: 1855-1898 – Haiti
  • Yoshinao Nakada: 1923-2000 – Japan
  • Sergei Prokofiev: 1891-1953 – Russia
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff: 1873-1943 – Russia
  • Maurice Ravel: 1875-1937 – France
  • Franz Schubert: 1797-1828 – Austria
  • Robert Schumann: 1810-1856 – Germany
  • Alexander Scriabin: 1872-1915 – Russia
  • Paul Sheftel: b. 1933 – Italy/USA
  • Roberto Sierra: b. 1953 – Puerto Rico
  • Christian Sinding: 1856-1941 – Norway
  • Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: 1840-1893 – Russia
  • John Williams: b. 1932 – USA.
  • Aleksandr Zhivtsov: 1907-1972 – Russia

PIANO PROJECT HISTORY AT BLOOMINGDALE

March 15, 2008 – Sonidos de España/Sounds of Spain

April 4, 2009 – The Three B’s: Bach Beethoven Brahms

April 17, 2010 – 110 Years of Modern Music

April 9, 2011 – Program Music: Telling Stories and Painting Pictures Through Music

March 10, 2012 – Shall We Dance

March 9, 2013 – Music from Russia: Past and Present

March 8, 2014 – Sonatas-Preludes-Toccatas-Fantasies-Etudes

March 7, 2015 – Music of the Americas

March 5, 2016 – Piano Music of the 19th Century: Romanticism and Beyond

March 11, 2017 – The First Viennese School: Urgency and Resolve in the Classical Era

March 17, 2018 – Piano Revolutionaries: Classical and Jazz through the Modern Era

March 30, 2019 – The Influence of Song

March 28, 2020 – The Influential Beethoven: His Contemporaries and Beyond CANCELLED DUE TO COVID19

March 20, 2021 – The Influential Beethoven: His Contemporaries and Beyond – TAKE II

March 5, 2022 – Variations, Jazz & Folk Music

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