Basically Beethoven Festival – Concert #1

2:30pm – Rising Stars: Performer Diploma Students in the Music Division of the Meadows School of the Arts, SMU, present Gian Carlo Menotti‘s The Telephone* Kathryn Piña, soprano, Rey Winn , baritone, with Hannah St. Romain, SMU staff accompanist, collaborative piano

Update June 22: Rey Winn will replace Bradley Ritschel in this role due to an mild injury. We wish Bradley a swift recovery and welcome and thank Rey Winn for stepping into this role!

3:00pm – Featured Artist Sara Daneshpour performs Liszt: Études d’exécution transcendante, S.139 Born in Washington, DC, into an Iranian-American family, Sara Daneshpour has studied under the direction of  Leon Fleisher at the Curtis Institute of Music, with Yoheved Kaplinsky and Oleg Volkov at the Juilliard School, and with  Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Ms. Daneshpour previously was on the faculty at the University  of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and has joined the faculty of Southern Methodist University in Dallas,  Texas, in 2025. 

*The Telephone (L’amour a Trois), Opera Music by Gian Carlo Menotti, Libretto by the Composer, Presented under license from G. Schirmer, Inc., copyright owners.