with guest artist
SARA DANESHPOUR
The Carthage Lakeside Piano Festival includes three days of performances by current Carthage students, and community members. The festival concludes with a dynamic concert featuring the virtuosic talents of award-winning pianist Sara Daneshpour.
Sunday, March 22, 2026
2 p.m.
A. F. Siebert Chapel
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In orchestra concerts and solo recitals, Sara Daneshpour stuns audiences with an unusually wide repertoire ranging from Bach to Boulez, with her dazzling technique and an exceptional level of artistic depth and sincerity. Her performances, described as “a powerhouse account, producing enough tone for two pianists in the process” (Baltimore Sun), are critically acclaimed as lavishing “colour on oft-neglected lines, illuminating subtle beauties” (The New York Concert Review). Her solo programme of Études by Chopin and Ligeti combines two of the most intriguing and demanding works written for the piano.
Ms. Daneshpour has performed throughout the world and has been heard at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Carnegie Hall in New York, and at the Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. She has won prizes in the Arthur Rubinstein, William Kapell, Concours International de Musique du Maroc, and Russian International Piano Competitions.
Born in Washington, DC, she studied at the Curtis Institute, the Juilliard School, and the Cleveland Institute of Music with Sergei Babayan.
Previously on the faculty at the University of Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, she joined the faculty of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, in 2025.
program
12 Transcendental etudes, S. 139 - Franz Liszt
Etudes d’exécution transcendante, no. 1, “Preludio”
Etudes d’exécution transcendante, no.2
Etudes d’exécution transcendante, no.3, “Paysage”
Etudes d’exécution transcendante, no.4, “Mazeppa”
Etudes d’exécution transcendante, no.5, “Feux Follets”
Etudes d’exécution transcendante, no.6, “Vision”
Etudes d’exécution transcendante, no.7, “Eroica”
Etudes d’exécution transcendante, no.8, “Wilde Jagd”
Etudes d’exécution transcendante, no.9, “Ricordanza”
Etudes d’exécution transcendante, no.10
Etudes d’exécution transcendante, no.11, “Harmonies du soir”
Etudes d’exécution transcendante, no.12, “Chasse-neige” .
This artist is presented in part by the support of the Racine Community Foundation. For more information, please visit www.racinecommunityfoundation.org.
For more information on program selections, and more about our Performing Arts Series, visit: www.carthage.edu/arts/experience-the-arts/programs