ANN SCHEIN has earned high praise in major American and European cities and in the capitals of more than 50 countries around the world. She has performed with conductors such as George Szell, James Levine, Seiji Ozawa, James dePreist, David Zinman, Stanislaw Skrowacewski, and Sir Colin Davis, and with major orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Baltimore Symphony, the National Symphony, the London Philharmonic, the London Symphony, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. In 1963 she performed for President John Kennedy at the White House. In 1980, she extended the legacy of her legendary teachers, Mieczyslaw Munz, Arthur Rubinstein, and Dame Myra Hess, presenting the major Chopin repertoire in 6 concerts in Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall throughout an entire season—the first Chopin cycle heard in New York in 35 years—to enthusiastic reviews and sold-out houses. From 1980 to 2000 she was on the piano faculty of the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, and she has been an Artist-Faculty member of the Aspen Music Festival and School since 1984.

Her appearances in 2005 included engagements across the United States, Canada, and Iceland, and for the Aspen summer season, she opened a three-year series performing all 32 Beethoven Piano Sonatas. She also performed many chamber works, including the Corigliano Violin Sonata with Herbert Greenberg, and the Brahms G minor Piano Quartet with Earl Carlyss, Sabina Thatcher, and Darrett Adkins. In addition to duo appearances in Cleveland's Kent/Blossom Festival during the summers of 2005 and 2006, Ann Schein and Herbert Greenberg are featured in a performance of the William Walton Violin Sonata on a recently released CD on Delos devoted to orchestral works of Walton, with James dePreist conducting the Portland Symphony. Her performance of the Third Rachmaninoff Concerto in Aspen in June of 2006, with Joseph Silverstein conducting, was the most recent of over 100 performances she has given of this work since the beginning of her career. For the two summers of 2006 and 2007 in Aspen, she has been chosen among the piano faculty to hold the Vikki and Ron Simms Chair in Piano.

Ann Schein has toured in major cities across the U.S. and Brazil with the great soprano Jessye Norman, and they have recorded early Berg songs for Sony Classical. Her recording of Schumann's solo piano works was released on Ivory Classics in 2001 to great critical acclaim, and in the fall of 2005, her recording of the Chopin Preludes and the B minor Sonata was released by MSR Classics. In addition to her busy concert schedule, she is in constant demand for master classes and lectures, and as an adjudicator in major piano competitions. She is married to Earl Carlyss, for more than 20 years second violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet. Throughout their separate careers, they have also performed as a duo world-wide. They played the premiere of Ned Rorem's Night Music at the Library of Congress, recording it for Desto Records. They commissioned a Duo by Gerard Schurmann in 1984 and also premiered it at the Library of Congress. Earl Carlyss is presently teaching string quartets at the Juilliard School, and has served as Director of the Aspen Center for Advanced Quartet Studies since 1984. They have two daughters, Linnea and Pauline.

"Thank heaven for Ann Schein. With all the mane-tossing, keyboard-splintering Wunderkinder cluttering up concert halls these days what a relief it is to hear a pianist who, with no fuss or muss, simply reaches right into the heart of whatever she is playing and creates music so powerful you cannot tear yourself away."
—The Washington Post

PROGRAM

Sonata in E-flat, Op. 81a, "Les Adieux" Adagio; Allegro Andante espressivo Vivacissimamente Fantasy in C, D. 760, "Wanderer" Allegro con fuoco ma non troppo Adagio Presto Allegro

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

INTERMISSION

Sonatine (1905) Modéré Mouvement de menuet Animé L'Isle joyeuse Tarantella

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Franz Liszt (1811-86)