IN THE JOYOUS LIGHT

Jonathan Biss is as “a superb pianist and also an eloquent and insightful music writer” (The Boston Globe) with “impeccable taste and a formidable technique” (The New Yorker), Jonathan Biss is a world-renowned educator and critically acclaimed author and has appeared internationally as a soloist with the Los Angeles and New York Philharmonics, the Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco Symphonies, and the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras as well as the London Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw, the Philharmonia, and Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, among many other ensembles. Biss is also Co-Artistic Director alongside Mitsuko Uchida at the Marlboro Music Festival, where he has spent fifteen summers.

In the 2023-24 season, Biss returns to perform with the Saint Louis Symphony and Stéphane Dénève, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Ramón Tebar, and the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Seguin at Carnegie Hall. Throughout the season, Biss will present a new project that pairs solo piano works by Schubert with new compositions by Alvin Singleton, Tyson Gholston Davis, and Tyshawn Sorey at San Francisco Performances, Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, among many others.

Jonathan Biss's collaborative spirit shines through in his upcoming performances. He is teaming up with Mitsuko Uchida for Schubert's music for piano 4-hands at Carnegie Hall and other venues. He will also be performing with the Brentano Quartet, London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra with Ryan Bancroft, Elias String Quartet, and the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris with Pekka Kuusisto. His diverse repertoire includes works by György Kurtág and Schubert at the Sala Verdi in Milan and Timo Andres's "The Blind Banister" as part of his Beethoven/5 project.