WFHB Bloomington Community Radio
Join us as world-renowned pianist Emanuel Ax comes to Bloomington for an evening of magnificent music. His program at IU Auditorium will include works by Schubert and Liszt.
Mr. Ax holds honorary doctorates of music from Skidmore College, New England Conservatory of Music, Yale University, and Columbia University, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been a Sony Classical exclusive recording artist since 1987. His most recent release, Brahms Trios, was with Yo-Yo Ma and Leonidas Kavakos.
He received Grammy Awards for the second and third volumes of his cycle of Haydn’s piano sonatas. He has also made a series of Grammy-winning recordings of the Beethoven and Brahms sonatas for cello and piano with cellist Yo-Yo Ma. In 2005, Mr. Ax contributed to an International Emmy Award-Winning BBC documentary commemorating the Holocaust that aired on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. In 2013, Mr. Ax’s recording Variations received the Echo Klassik Award for Solo Recording of the Year.
