Emanuel Ax
Free Reservation Required
Tuesday, September 8 @ 7 PM
A Master Plays the Masters
8-time GRAMMY®-winning pianist Emanuel Ax opens our 38th season.
Born to Polish parents in what is today Lviv, Ukraine, Emanuel Ax moved to Winnipeg, Canada, with his family when he was a young boy. Mr. Ax made his New York debut in the Young Concert Artists Series, and in 1974 won the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. In 1975 he won the Michaels Award of Young Concert Artists, followed four years later by the Avery Fisher Prize.
Mr. Ax has been a Sony Classical exclusive recording artist since 1987 and following the success of the Brahms Trios with Kavakos and Ma, the trio launched an ambitious, multi-year project to record all the Beethoven Trios and Symphonies arranged for trio of which the first three discs have been released. He has received 8 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 with Yo-Yo Ma of the Beethoven and Brahms sonatas for cello and piano. In the 2004/05 season 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 (19th Century Music/Piano).
Mr. Ax is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and holds honorary doctorates of music from Skidmore College, New England Conservatory of Music, Yale University, and Columbia University.
Mr. Ax is represented by Opus 3 Artists.
We’ve had a few questions about our concert featuring Emanuel Ax. The performance is still free and open to the public! Since this will be a very popular concert and to stay within fire code parameters, we will be asking people to reserve their free seats.
What if I don’t want to reserve seats online? If you would prefer to make reservations over the phone, please call our reservation line at 402-881-0166. This phone number will be monitored by our Administrative Assistant, Tyler Sieh. If you leave a message about reserving tickets, leave your name, email, phone number, and how many tickets (up to 4) you’d like to reserve. Just because you leave a message doesn’t mean that you will have a seat. You will receive confirmation from Tyler via phone call or email that you have successfully reserved your seats.
Please do not email any staff members to reserve your seats, either reserve your seats at the link here or call our reservation line. Emails sent to staff members will not be considered as reservations.
How fast do I need to reserve tickets?
Tickets are on a first come, first serve basis. This performance will be general admission instead of assigned seats. Reserve them at the button below!
Questions? Please contact our Administrative Assistant Tyler Sieh at vesperconcerts@gmail.com.
“Ax, whose mastery of the standard canon is a given, looked and sounded perfectly at home in this jazz-inflected fare. The pianist drew a mosaic of colors and characters from his part, playing with voicings that were ever clean, clear, and well-balanced. His navigation of the music’s repeated figures and runs were spiffily on-point as was his command of the concerto’s several improvisatory-like episodes, particularly in the first movement.”
