Stephanie & Saar will be working with Petrina and Preston Steimel on the following 4-hand repertoire:
Allegro from Mozart’s Sonata in D Major, K. 381
Baracarolle, Scherzo, and Slava from Rachmaninoff’s 6 Morceaux, Op. 11
Feria from Ravel’s Rhapsodie Espagnole
Allegro from Kapustin’s Sinfonietta, Op. 49
Petrina and Preston, students of Robert Durso, Master Taubman Teacher, will be working with Stephanie and Saar in preparation for the Eastern Division of the MTNA National Competition!
The Live Stream
This event is available via live stream only. The videos will be available after the event, so you can watch at your convenience! Access information for the live stream will be emailed to you a few days before the event.
About DUO Stephanie & Saar
Pianists Stephanie Ho and Saar Ahuvia collaborate as DUO Stephanie and Saar in performances noted for their artistic versatility, elegance and intellectual curiosity. As probing artists, the duo explores repertoire with both classical and contemporary sensibilities. The duo’s vast repertoire encompasses four-hand arrangements of Beethoven string quartets and Bach’s Art of the Fugue to the Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring with mixed ensemble arrangements.
DUO Stephanie and Saar are the artistic directors of Makrokosmos Project, a musical festival in Portland, Oregon dedicated to the contemporary American music and performances by Oregon-based performers and composers.
Saar Ahuvia, a native of Israel, studied at the Tel Aviv Academy and the Schaufhausen Conservatory in Switzerland prior to coming to the United States to pursue a Graduate Performance Degree with Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Institute. Stephanie Ho, of Taiwanese descent, grew up in Portland. She obtained degrees from Oberlin College and Northwestern University as well as a Graduate Performance Diploma from the Peabody Institute where she studied with Julian Martin.
Stephanie and Saar are married to one another and reside in New York City.