German-born Henning Vauth won the Concours Grieg International Competition for Pianists in Norway and the IBLA Grand Prize International Competition in Italy. He has performed at Lincoln Center and major venues in Berlin and Paris.
At HSU he will play “Kreisleriana” by 19th century composer Robert Schumann, based on writer E.T.A. Hoffmann’s fictions about Johannes Kreisler, an eccentric orchestra conductor “freed from the shackles of society by the ‘madness’ of music.”
Vauth also performs Mozart’s Sonata in C Major, K. 330, described by Albert Einstein as “a masterpiece in which every note belongs—one of the most lovable works Mozart ever wrote.”
He concludes with piano transcriptions of works by Bach (“Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”), Rachmaninoff (“Daisies”), and from Donizetti’s opera “Lucia de Lammermoor.”
Henning Vauth performs on Friday, Mar. 9 at 8 p.m., Fulkerson Recital Hall, HSU. $8/$3. A Guest Artists concert produced by the HSU Music Department. Tickets: 826-3928. Information: HSUMusic.blogspot.com.