Sarah Rothenberg Bio
Sarah Rothenberg has a unique career as pianist, writer, and creator of interdisciplinary performances connecting music with visual art and literature She is recognized internationally as a “trailblazing pianist” (Boston Globe) who plays with “power and introspection” (New York Times), and as a “ a prolific and creative thinker” (Wall Street Journal) Performances include Great Performers at Lincoln Center, Park Avenue Armory, Barbican Centre, La Philharmonie Paris, the Concertgebouw, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 92Y, Gilmore Piano Festival, Ojai and Big Ears festivals, and series across the U.S.
A champion of new music and neglected repertoire of the past, she has performed over 85 premieres, with recent solo works from Tyshawn Sorey and Vijay Iyer Her critically acclaimed recordings include the U.S. premieres of Fanny Mendelssohn’s Das Jahr; Rediscovering the Russian Avant-Garde: Roslavetz, Lourié, Mosolov; and Shadows and Fragments: Brahms and Schoenberg; as well as works of Messiaen, Satie, Feldman, Cage, Carter, Wuorinen, Picker, Tsontakis, Sorey Original productions conceived, directed and performed by Sarah Rothenberg include A Proust Sonata; The Blue Rider: Kandinsky and Music; In the Garden of Dreams ( fin-de-siècle Vienna in music,art, ideas); the films The Departing Landscape (Feldman) and, forthcoming, Door of No Return (Sorey); as well as a five-season series at Lincoln Center, Music and the Literary Imagination Her essays appear in literary journals, art monographs and music publications.
Sarah Rothenberg has led DACAMERA, the vanguard music organization in Houston, since 1994, and was co-founding artistic director of the Bard Music Festival A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, she also studied in Paris with Yvonne Loriod. She received the French medal of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2000 She lives in Houston and New York