Alexandre Kantorow

After his 2023 Carnegie Hall debut, Alexandre Kantorow was called “an exemplar of a new generation” by The New York Times, whose critic noted the “intriguing tension between Kantorow’s lucid, pearly touch and the Romantic wildness of his music making.” Tonight, the Gilmore Artist Award winner and International Tchaikovsky Competition Gold Medalist returns to even greater anticipation. His program features two rarely performed works: Medtner’s Romantic Piano Sonata in F Minor and a significant set of variations Liszt wrote on a theme by J. S. Bach. Several well-loved piano works complete the program, including a Chopin prelude; an unconventional, single-movement piano sonata from Scriabin’s late period; and Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 32—the composer’s last work in the form.