Catherine Kautsky: A Night in Vienna piano concert

Join us at The Willows for A Night in Vienna, a piano concert by acclaimed St. Louis native Catherine Kautsky. This evocative program explores the two faces of Vienna — the glittering cultural capital of Mozart, Schubert, and Beethoven, and the city that exiled or silenced so many of its Jewish composers during the Holocaust. Through music and memory, Kautsky illuminates what Vienna gave the world, and what the world lost. Praised by The New York Times as a pianist whose music “speaks directly to the listener,” Kautsky has performed on six continents and in venues including Carnegie Recital Hall and Alice Tully Hall. A Professor of Music at Lawrence University, she has received numerous awards for both teaching and the arts, and her recordings of Debussy and Brahms have been acclaimed for their intensity and sensitivity. Her book Debussy’s Paris: Piano Portraits of the Belle Époque (2017) was praised for its “gorgeously written, colorful prose,” and her 24-part lecture-recital series Great Piano Works Explained (Great Courses, 2022) brings performance and commentary to a wide audience. Most recently, she performed illustrative works at the Relais de la Memoire in Paris. This concert is presented by United Hebrew Congregation through the Helen C. Millstone Music Fund. Registration is required.