Benefit Event featuring pianist-composer, Michael Stephen Brown, and the outstanding young musicians of the Lyra Music Young Artist Performance Program. 

PROGRAM:
Beethoven: Sonata in F-sharp Major, Op. 78
Michael Stephen Brown: Four Lakes for Children
Fauré: Nocturne no. 6 in D-flat Major, Op. 63
Rachmaninoff: “Scherzo” from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, after Mendelssohn
Liszt: “Wedding March and Dance of the Fairies” from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, after Mendelssohn

Suggested Donation $50. Your Donation will sustain low-cost ticket options for Lyra Music Festival audiences and support Lyra's FREE outreach concert initiative making live classical music accessible to all.

Your gift will also support need-based financial aid for Lyra Music Young Artists ensuring access to specialized classical music training for aspiring middle and high school musicians regardless of ability to pay. It will provide the practice facilities, outstanding faculty, masterclasses, and lessons with world-class guest artists that make the crucial difference in a young musician's development.

GUEST ARTIST MICHAEL STEPHEN BROWN:
Winner of an Emerging Artist Award from Lincoln Center and an Avery Fisher Career Grant, pianist-composer Michael Stephen Brown performs recitals and concertos worldwide and receives commissions from leading orchestras, performers and chamber music festivals. Recent highlights include a solo recital at Alice Tully Hall for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, concerts with his longtime duo partner, cellist Nicholas Canellakis, collaborations with Pinchas Zukerman, and an Asia recital tour with violinist Arnaud Sussmann. As a composer, Brown was recently in residence at the Yaddo artist colony and performed his Piano Concerto with orchestras across the US and Poland.