This event originally scheduled for May 6, 2020 has been rescheduled to Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at 8 p.m. Ticket buyers wishing to attend the rescheduled date should simply retain their current tickets and present them at the door on the newly scheduled date. Ticket buyers are eligible to request a refund at the original point of purchase, but are asked to consider donating the cost of their tickets to the non-profit Sheldon Arts Foundation. Refunds should be requested before May 6. 2020 through MetroTix at 314-534-1111 or at [email protected]. We apologize for any inconvenience, and thank you for your continued support!

Pianist Einav Yarden is praised for her “…imagination and exceptionally vivid playing…Sense of immense majesty, tempered by gentleness and quiet grace” (The Washington Post), and “glistening rapture…ingenious humor” (Tagesspiegel, Germany).  She has appeared as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Radio Symphony Orchestra of Berlin and the Rundfunkchor Berlin, Minnesota Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Bucharest Philharmonic, Jerusalem Symphony, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, and under conductors as Sir Neville Marriner, Aldo Ceccato, Leon Botstein, Frédéric Chaslin, Stefan Blunier, Simon Halsey, Mendi Rodan among others.

Her Sheldon recital will include selections by Beethoven, Haydn, Schoenberg and Kurtág.

Beethoven, Bagatelles, Op. 33, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 7

Kurtág, selection from Játékok (Games)

Beethoven, Piano Sonata in E flat major, Op. 27 No. 1, “Quasi una Fantasia”

Schoenberg – Five Piano Pieces, Op. 23

Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109

Haydn - Fantasy in C major, XVII/4

Sponsored by Drs. Joseph Marcus and Margaret Olsen

Photo credit: Georg Thum