2025-2026 Season Program Notes

The 2025-26 Season is announced, and we’re honored to present these award winning, international pianists bring this music to the San Francisco Bay Area. For easy access to the season at a glance and links to each concert, visit the Concerts Section of the website at https://steinwaysociety.com/concerts/2025-26-season-at-a-glance/

The Steinway Society’s 2025-26 concert season will feature a diverse range of music and composers performed by seven talented pianists:

 

Aristo Sham

• Bach: Toccata in C Minor, BWV 911

• Bach-Rachmaninoff: Suite (from Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006)

• Grieg: Holberg Suite, op. 40

• Bach-Busoni: Chaconne (from Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004)

• Brahms-Busoni: Six Chorale Preludes, op. 122

• Chopin-Busoni: Variations on Prelude in C Minor

 

Pavel Kolesnikov

• Chopin:

  • Nocturne in E-flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2

  • Prelude in E Minor, Op. 28, No. 4

  • Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58

Duphly: Suite in C Minor (from Premier livre de pièces de clavecin)

Rameau: Pièces de clavecin

 

Eric Lu

• Schumann: Arabeske in C Major, Op. 18

• Schubert: Four Impromptus, D. 935 (Op. post. 142)

  • Allegro moderato (F Minor)

  • Allegretto (A-flat Major)

  • Andante (B-flat Major)

  • Allegro scherzando (F Minor)

• Chopin:

  • Polonaise in B-flat Major, Op. 71, No. 2

  • Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58

    • Allegro maestoso

    • Scherzo: Molto vivace

    • Largo

    • Finale: Presto, non tanto

 

Chaeyoung Park

• Debussy: Pour le piano

• Bach-Brahms: Chaconne (from Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004)

• Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Book 2

• Granados: “El pelele” (from Goyescas)

• Mompou: Scenes d’enfants: No. 5

• Albéniz: “El puerto” (from Iberia)

• Messiaen: Le baiser de l’Enfant-Jésus

• Ravel: La Valse

 

George Harliono

• Bach-Busoni: Chaconne (from Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004)

• Liszt:

  • Étude No. 3, “Un sospiro” (from Trois études de concert, S. 144)

  • Liebestraum No. 3 (from Liebesträume—3 Notturnos, S. 541)

  • Mephisto Waltz No. 1 (“The Dance in the Village Inn”), S. 514

• Beethoven: Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp Minor “quasi una fantasia,” Op. 27, No. 2 (“Moonlight”)

• Chopin: Nocturne in C Minor, Op. 48, No. 1

• Glinka-Balakirev: “The Lark” (from A Farewell to St. Petersburg)

• Balakirev: Islamey: An Oriental Fantasy, Op. 18

   

Claire Huangci

• Beethoven: Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109

• Chopin: Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-sharp Minor, Op. 66

• Felix Mendelssohn: Fantasie in F-sharp Minor, Op. 28

• Price: Fantasie nègre No. 2 in G Minor

• Gershwin-Wild: Songbook

  • The Man I Love

  • Embraceable You

  • Oh, Lady Be Good

  • I’ve Got Rhythm

  • Fascinatin’ Rhythm

• Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue

 

Hayato Sumino

• J. S. Bach: Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 903

• Sumino: New Birth (after Chopin)

• Sumino: Recollection (after Chopin)

• Sumino: Three Nocturnes

• Chopin: Nocturne in C Minor, Op. 48, No. 1

• Chopin: Scherzo No. 1 in B Minor, Op. 20

• Sumino: Big Cat Waltz

• Gershwin: An American in Paris

• Ravel: Boléro