Songs and Stories Sundays: Johanna Ballou

Join pianist Johanna Ballou on All Saints Day for an afternoon of diverse classical repertoire celebrating the macabre, the celestial, and the divine. The program will include works by Beethoven, Liszt, Villa-Lobos, Crumb, and Alyssa Morris, and will also feature special guest Blake Duncan on the oboe. 

Johanna Ballou has been enthralling American and European audiences with magnetic stage presence and dynamic interpretations as a soloist and collaborative pianist through the USA and Europe. She completed her studies at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in the UK and has studied with Daniel Martyn Lewis, Rolf Hind, Seth Carlin, William Phemister, and members of Grammy Award-winning ensemble Eighth Blackbird. After her acclaimed Welsh premier of György Ligeti’s Piano Concerto, she toured alongside members of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and London Sinfonietta for the contemporary chamber opera company Music Theatre Wales. She has collaborated with Diversions, the National Dance Company…