Mainly Mozart Festival 2026: THREE VISIONS OF THE SONATA
June 21 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Winner of the 2025 Long-Thibaud International Piano Competition, pianist Saehyun Kim has quickly drawn international attention for the refinement, color, and expressive depth of his playing. Praised by Diapason as “an exceptional artist” and by Le Figaro for his “stunning profusion of colors,” Kim has appeared at major venues in the U.S., France, Austria, South Korea, and Japan, and is currently based in Boston, where he studies in the Harvard/NEC dual degree program.
In this richly contrasted recital, Kim brings together three masterworks that reveal the piano’s many voices. Schubert’s Sonata in G major, D. 894 unfolds with spacious lyricism, serenity, and quiet nobility. After intermission, Mozart’s Piano Sonata in B-flat major, K. 281 offers wit, elegance, and youthful brilliance, before Chopin’s Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor brings the evening to a powerful close — a work of turbulence, poetry, and haunting inevitability.
Program Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 18 in G Major, D. 894 Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 3 in B-flat Major, K. 281 Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35