Music director and pianist, Jeffrey Kahane steps out from behind the podium with a rare solo performance of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, a piano recital benefitting the SA Philharmonic. The work we know today as the Goldberg Variations ranks among the supreme masterpieces of the entire keyboard repertoire. An astonishing, encyclopedic display of the keyboard styles and genres of Bach’s day, it is also a profound inward spiritual journey which traverses the gamut of human experience: joy, uproarious humor, deep sorry, and transcendence.
This is the third concert in the Bach: Reverberations & Reflections, a multi-year project in celebration of the music and influence of J.S. Bach, a composer who stands at the fountainhead of Western classical music and whose influence on the history of music is as profound as any musician who has ever lived.
J.S. Bach: “Goldberg” Variations, BWV 988
Jeffrey Kahane, Solo Piano – a special benefit concert for the SA Philharmonic
Doors: 1:30 PM
Concert: 2:30 PM
All Ages
ABOUT JEFFREY KAHANE
The music director of the SA Philharmonic is celebrated for his “imagination, devotion and supreme musicianship” (Los Angeles Times), Jeffrey Kahane is now in the fifth decade of an expansive and eclectic musical career. As a pianist, conductor and scholar, his career highlights run the gamut from concertos with the New York Philharmonic and San Francisco Symphony, to recitals with Yo-Yo Ma and Joshua Bell, European tours at the podium of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, lecture/performances of Beethoven symphonies informed by his immersion in ancient literature, and collaborations with the Emerson, Miró, Dover, Attacca and Calidore String Quartets. Kahane is currently Music Director of the San Antonio Philharmonic and leads his first titled season in 2024-2025. Since 2017 he has also served as Music Director of the Sarasota Music Festival, where he has significantly expanded the diversity of both the faculty and the programming, introducing workshops in improvisation and non-classical musical languages, while maintaining a deep commitment to the core canonical repertoire.
ABOUT OLLU SACRED HEART CHAPEL
Our Lady of the Lake University (OLLU), founded in 1895 by the Congregation of Divine Providence, is a coeducational liberal arts institution with an enrollment of approximately 1,900 students. A multi-campus, regional university, OLLU has locations in San Antonio, Houston, and the Rio Grande Valley, and an extensive online presence. The university offers more than 50 programs spanning undergraduate majors and minors, master’s degree programs, and doctoral programs. The College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Business and Leadership, the College of Professional Studies, the Worden School of Social Service, and the Woolfolk School of Communication Sciences and Disorders offer academic degree programs. OLLU incorporates a technology-rich curriculum in all areas of study and provides access to a wide variety of high-tech resources. Learn more at ollu.edu/chapel.
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