Taos School of Music: Robert McDonald, Pianist

Tuesday, July 15th, 2025

7:30 PM

Price: $35 - 40

Taos Center for the Arts

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Taos School of Music

Robert McDonald, Pianist

TUES, July 15, 7:30pm

Program

Beethoven, Sonata Op. 28

Brahms, Four Pieces for Piano Op. 119

Grieg, Lyric Pieces

Coplan, Piano Variations

Tickets 

$35-40

With ticket, receive 20% discount off food at Doc Martin’s after the concert.

About Robert McDonald

Pianist Robert McDonald has played extensively as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America.  He has appeared with major orchestras in the United States and Latin America, and was the recital partner for many years to Isaac Stern, as well as other celebrated instrumentalists. Mr. McDonald has also performed with the Takács, Vermeer, Juilliard, Brentano, Borromeo, American, and Shanghai string quartets, and in tours with Music from Marlboro.

His discography includes recordings for Sony Classical, Bridge, Vox, Musical Heritage Society, ASV, and CRI, and Mr. McDonald’s prizes include the Gold Medal at the Busoni International Piano Competition, the William Kapell International Competition, and the Deutsche Schallplatten Critics Award. He has studied with Theodore Rehl, Seymour Lipkin, Rudolf Serkin, Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Beveridge Webster, and Gary Graffman, and holds degrees from Lawrence University, The Curtis Institute of Music, The Juilliard School, and the Manhattan School of Music.

A member of the piano faculty at the Juilliard School since 1999, Mr. McDonald joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 2007. In addition to coaching piano at Taos School of Music, he is also the school’s artistic director. This will be his forty-second summer in Taos.

juilliard.edu/music/faculty/mcdonald-robert

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