Sunday, August 24, 2025
Clayton Stephenson, piano
Ticket Drawing Opens March 18, 2025 at 12:00 pm MT – We invite you to return here to register at that time.
The Olivier Music Barn, 11:00 AM
Program
HAROLD ARLEN—KEITH JARRETT: Over the Rainbow
IGOR STRAVINSKY: Three Movements from Petrushka
Russian Dance
Petrushka's Room
The Shrovetide Fair
ISAAC ALBÉNIZ: Iberia, Book I
Evocación
El Puerto
Fête-dieu à Séville
FLORENCE PRICE: Piano Concerto in One Movement, III. Andantino–Allegretto (arr. by C. Stephenson)
GEORGE GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue
Pianist Clayton Stephenson returns to the art center in a dynamic program that takes the audience on an international tour of early 20th century classical music to Russia, Spain, and the United States, bookended by two of the most enduring tunes of the same period – Over the Rainbow and Rhapsody in Blue.
Clayton Stephenson is hailed for “extraordinary narrative and poetic gifts” and interpretations that are “fresh, incisive and characterfully alive” (Gramophone). He is a 2025 Sphinx Medal of Excellence Honoree and a 2024 recipient of the Avery Fischer Career Grant.
Stephenson appears by arrangement with the Cliburn Agency.
IGOR STRAVINSKY: Three Movements from Petrushka
Russian Dance
Petrushka's Room
The Shrovetide Fair
ISAAC ALBÉNIZ: Iberia, Book I
Evocación
El Puerto
Fête-dieu à Séville
FLORENCE PRICE: Piano Concerto in One Movement, III. Andantino–Allegretto (arr. by C. Stephenson)
GEORGE GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue
Pianist Clayton Stephenson returns to the art center in a dynamic program that takes the audience on an international tour of early 20th century classical music to Russia, Spain, and the United States, bookended by two of the most enduring tunes of the same period – Over the Rainbow and Rhapsody in Blue.
Clayton Stephenson is hailed for “extraordinary narrative and poetic gifts” and interpretations that are “fresh, incisive and characterfully alive” (Gramophone). He is a 2025 Sphinx Medal of Excellence Honoree and a 2024 recipient of the Avery Fischer Career Grant.
Stephenson appears by arrangement with the Cliburn Agency.