“A transcendent experience” [Beethoven Op. 111]NEW YORK ARTS
“A revelation…simply spellbinding” [Debussy Images I & II]
BOSTON MUSIC INTELLIGENCER
“The sound was pure magic…disturbingly beautiful” [Schubert D. 960]EARLY MUSIC AMERICA
“The most exciting and appropriate version of the Appassionata”SLATE MAGAZINE
News/Concerts
Research ArtistTexas A&M University – Central Texas
Artist in Residence July 2023
Cité Internationale Des Arts, Paris
INFO: https://www.citedesartsparis.net/
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Benefit – June 3, 2023
PLEASE DONATE HERE:
https://fundraising.stjude.org/site/TR;jsessionid=00000000.app20020a?px=4550257&fr_id=134326&pg=personal&NONCE_TOKEN=91CC64493599289AF5A6B769EB461234
MARGARET BONDS: Three Dream Portraits
With Dashon Burton, bass-baritone
Live Concert Recording
https://youtu.be/_uhiwqxXy2g
GABRIEL FAURE: Mirages
With Dashon Burton, bass-baritone
Live Concert Recording
https://youtu.be/bjWe22MAaCQ
BEETHOVEN AND BUDDHISM: The Final Piano Sonatas
Live Concert from San Francisco
https://youtu.be/SQGYB8nnUko
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata Op. 110
Live Concert from Palomar College, California
https://youtu.be/KLuUEYl1BVc
Poulenc Sextet for Piano and Winds
January 22, 2023
with the Wind Faculty of Phillips Academy
Andover, Massachusetts
Texas A&M University – Central Texas
February 2, 2023
Chopin, Debussy, Beethoven
INFO: https://www.tamuct.edu/registrar/academic-calendar.html#event=75681166;instance=20230202113000?popup=1
Texas A&M University – Central Texas
March 9, 2023
Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy
Texas A&M University – Central Texas
April 6, 2023
Bach, Janacek, Liszt, Debussy
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Recital with Dashon Burton, bass-baritone
September 24, 2022
The La Grua Center ~ Stonington, CT
Schumann, Brahms, Faure, Bonds
INFO: https://lagruacenter.org/events/music-matters-immortal-dreams/
Old First Concerts – San Francisco, CA
Beethoven and Buddhism
October 23, 2022
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Op. 109, 110, 111
INFO: https://www.oldfirstconcerts.org/performance/stephen-porter-beethoven-and-buddhism-sunday-october-23-at-4-pm/
Texas A&M University and Temple College
April 28-29, 2022
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Op. 109, 110, 111
INFO: Stephen Porter Poster
Recordings
BEETHOVEN AND BUDDHISM: The Final Piano Sonatas
Live from San Francisco
https://youtu.be/SQGYB8nnUko
SPIRITUEL – The Liszt Concert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEvJsEkDet0&t=52s
Buckley Recital Hall – Amherst College
Mendelssohn chamber music
https://youtu.be/yJL47IMises
Live from San Francisco
Beethoven, Four Premieres, Debussy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSfkyOqTOnY
Texas A&M University – Central Texas
Recital and Keynote Address – excerpts
Rachmaninoff, Granados, Janacek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em6Ci_Ga21E
Biography
Stephen Porter has appeared internationally as a soloist at venues that include the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, the Gothenburg Academy of Music and Drama in Sweden, the Sala Villa-Lobos at the University of Rio de Janeiro, Albert Long Hall in Istanbul, LSO St. Luke’s with the Amadeus Orchestra of London, Sarajevo as the featured soloist of the Bosnia International Music Festival, the Malmö Academy of Music in Sweden, and the Rockefeller Foundation at Bellagio, Italy. He is a four-time artist resident of the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, and is currently Research Artist at Texas A&M University in Central Texas. This season he performs with two Grammy Award winning soloists, mezzo-soprano Krista River and bass-baritone Dashon Burton.
