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Season Sponsor

Bertie Bialek Elliott

Concert Sponsors

Martin R. Wolf Family Fund
Bill and Kathy Sharpe

Soloist Sponsor

Carol Lee Holland

Media Sponsors

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Jayce Ogren, Music Director

Ran Dank, piano


Jessie MONTGOMERY
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BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 2 [28']
    Ran Dank, piano


Jessie MONTGOMERY
Strum [8']


MOZART
Symphony No. 40 [30']


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RAN DANK

Mr. Dank's performances have garnered critical acclaim for his mastery of a wide spectrum of musical styles. He has appeared as soloist with the orchestras of Cleveland, Sydney, St. Luke's, Portland, Eugene, Toledo, Hawaii, Kansas City, Vermont, Charleston, Jerusalem, Valencia, Phoenix, Hilton Head, among others, under the baton of some of the world's leading conductors including Michael Stern, Jahja Ling, Michael Christie, Kirill Karabits, Jun Märkl, Pinchas Zukerman, Jorge Mester, Jaime Laredo, and Ken-David Masur. Ran also appeared with the Westchester Philharmonic and Jayce Ogren in a performance of Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto.  

His chamber performances have included Chanel in Tokyo, Great Lakes, Bridgehampton, Cooperstown, Mänttä, Bowdoin, Maverick, Skaneateles, and Montreal, and he has collaborated with luminaries of the field such as Paul Watkins, Augustin Hadelich, Eugene Drucker, Jaime Laredo, Sharon Robinson, James Ehnes, and The Orion, Shanghai, Takács, and Dover String Quartets. Mr. Dank's performance of Frederic Rzweski's monumental set of variations, "The People United Will Never Be Defeated!", at the University of Chicago was selected as one of the top ten performances of 2017 by the Chicago Classical Review. 

Mr. Dank is an ardent advocate for contemporary music, and has performed Kevin Puts' piano concerto Night, the Tobias Picker concerto, Keys to the City, William Bolcom's Pulitzer-winning set of Twelve New Etudes, and has given, alongside pianist and wife, Soyeon Kate Lee, the world premieres of Rzewski's Four Hands, and Alexander Goehr's Seven Impromptus. They also performed the world premiere of multiple Grammy-nominated pianist and composer's Marc-André Hamelin's Tango for piano four-hands. 

Ran Dank is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Naumburg Piano Competition and the Sydney International Piano Competition, and First Prize winner of the Hilton Head International Piano Competition.