British pianist Stephen Hough is the 2008 winner of the Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance, a biennial Bienen School of Music award honoring pianists who have achieved the highest levels of national and international recognition. Widely regarded as one of the most distinctive pianists of his generation, Hough integrates brilliant technique and imagination with scholarship and intellectual rigor. His more than 40 CDs on the Hyperion label have garnered numerous international honors, including Gramophone magazine's 1996 and 2003 Record of the Year, the Deutscher Schallplattenpreis, the Diapason d'Or, Le Monde de la Musique, and several Grammy nominations. Since winning the 1983 Naumburg International Piano Competition, Hough has appeared with almost every major American and European orchestra. He was also the recipient of a 2001 MacArthur Fellowship.

PROGRAM:
Bach/Cortot/Hough: Toccata & Fugue in D minor

Fauré: Nocturne No. 6 in D-flat, Op. 63; Impromptu No. 5 in F-sharp minor, Op. 102; Barcarolle No. 5 in F-sharp, Op. 66

Franck: Prelude, Chorale and Fugue

Copland: Piano Variations

Chopin: Nocturne in B, Op. 62, No. 1; Sonata in B minor, Op. 58

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