Drew Petersen at Savannah Music Festival

Prodigious pianist Drew Petersen is the winner of the 2017 American Pianists Awards and the Christel DeHaan Classical Fellowship of the American Pianists Association. He is a prizewinner in the Leeds International Piano Competition, the Hilton Head International Piano Competition, Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition and the New York Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition. Petersen’s career had an auspicious and early beginning. Presented at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall at age 5, at age 9 he performed a solo recital at Steinway Hall in Manhattan for the company’s 150th Anniversary. His unique gifts have been profiled in The New York Times, New York Magazine, in the documentary Just Normal and in Andrew Solomon’s book, “Far From the Tree.”

Program

Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita No. 5 in G Major, BWV 829

Franz Schubert
Fantasie in C Major, D. 760, “Wanderer Fantasy”

Intermission

Frédéric Chopin
Barcarolle in F-sharp Major, Opus 60

Enrique Granados
Valses poéticos

Samuel Barber
Piano Sonata in E minor, Opus 26

Program updated on Nov. 26, 2019

Artists

Drew Petersen, piano