Piano Guest Artist: Dr. Ryan Behan - November 18, 2021

Piano Guest Artist: Dr. Ryan Behan

November 18, 2021 from 7:00 p.m.

Ryan Behan, Assistant Professor of Piano and Director of Keyboard Studies at the University of Indianapolis, has performed throughout the US, in Europe and China, with radio broadcasts on ORF (Austria), BBC, and NPR. Recent performance highlights include: concerto soloist with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, Franz Liszt’s Années de Pèlerinage, recital appearances with the Indianapolis Quartet, and with sopranos Sumi Jo at the Mozarteum, and Jolana Slavíková at the Salzburg Festival. Dr. Behan is Co-Director of the Franz Liszt International Piano Festival and Competition (OH), and President of the Indianapolis Chapter of the American Liszt Society.

Franz Liszt’s Années de Pèlerinage (“Years of Pilgrimage”), widely considered one of his greatest works, was composed and reworked over the course of his life, and combines the freshness of the young composer with the clarity and meticulous fine-tuning of his Weimar period, unfolding into the mysterious and fragmentary brevity of his late style. Alfred Brendel writes: these suites “draw for their inspiration on a reservoir of diverse impressions - nature and musical folklore, art and religion, craving for freedom; above all, on poetry and literature….The First Year of Pilgrimage - Switzerland - deals with nature in a twofold sense: as nature around us, and as nature within.” Join faculty pianist Ryan Behan in a performance of the complete First Year of Pilgrimage - Switzerland.

Dr. Behan will present a masterclass at 4:30 pm and a concert at 7 pm. Both events are free and open to the public.

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Dixon Ministry Center Recital Hall [Tour]

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