Jonathan Biss, piano

Internationally renowned pianist Jonathan Biss, who has performed in Koerner Hall on two previous occasions, returns in an all-Franz Schubert program. The Royal Conservatory is grateful for his willingness to step in on such short notice. 

Praised as “a superb pianist and also an eloquent and insightful music writer” by The Boston Globe, and noted for his “impeccable taste and a formidable technique” by The New Yorker, Biss has appeared as a soloist with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics; the Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Cleveland, and Philadelphia Symphonies; and in Europe with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Philharmonia, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, and the London Philharmonic, among many others.

Jonathan Biss has also recently joined the piano faculty at the Conservatory's Glenn Gould School. As co-artistic director of the Marlboro Music Festival, a former professor at The Curtis Institute, and an esteemed writer and communicator on music, Biss brings a wealth of performance and pedagogical insight to the Ihnatowycz Piano Program at GGS.