Chopin’s Études represent a wide range of his most expressive music: music that sings, music that weeps, music that thunders.  Here we find vivid proof of Artur Rubenstein’s famous quote that “Chopin is the piano bard, the piano rhapsodist, the piano mind, the piano soul.”  To lend further 3-dimensionality to the performance, there will be themed visual projections accompanying the music.  The complete Études are not commonly performed in a single concert due to the high technical demands of performing them one after another.  

Tyler Wottrich is currently pianist of Ensemble ACJW (ensemble in-residence at Carnegie Hall) and has worked frequently in the past several years with Louis Burkot, Opera North, and some of Dartmouth’s superb young singers.  Wottrich has taught piano for four years at Stony Brook University, from which he recently graduated with a Doctor of Musical Arts.

Performance is free and open to the public.