Fri 12/6 @ 8PM
Sat 12/7 @ 8PM
Pianist/conductor Mitsuko Uchida, originally scheduled to play Beethoven’s concertos No. 2 and No. 3 with the Cleveland Orchestra this weekend, has had to withdraw from the engagement after injuring her thumb.
But the show will go on. She’ll be replaced by up-and-coming 33-year-old pianist Jonathan Biss, playing the same concertos. He’s already a veteran of Cleveland Orchestra performances with a special affinity for Beethoven.
Eighty-five year-old guest conductor Leon Fleisher, who conducts the program, was (probably not coincidentally) Biss’ teacher when the Indiana-based musician attended the Curtis Institute of Music. Fleisher himself was an accomplished concert pianist in his earlier years, performing these concertos with the Cleveland Orchestra and conductor George Szell in the ’60s. So he’s passing the torch here.
The orchestra will open the evening with Mendelssohn’s Overture: The Hebrides.
Tickets are $49-$162. Student tickets are $10. Kids and teens 7-17 are free with one ticket for each regular adult ticket.
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Photo: Jonathan Bliss
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106