Michael Hersch Marathon Concert: Jacob Rhodebeck, Piano

• Jacob Rhodebeck, piano

Peabody welcomes pianist Jacob Rhodebeck to campus for a rare performance. On May 13, National Sawdust in Brooklyn holds the U.S. premiere of sew me into a shroud of leaves, the 11-hour cycle by faculty composer Michael Hersch (BM ’95, MM ’97, Composition). The staggering, profound trilogy—The Vanishing Pavilions for solo piano, Last Autumn for cello and horn, one day may become menace for solo piano—has only been performed in its entirety once, at the 2019 Wien Modern festival inside the State Hall of the Austrian National Library, a concert the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung deemed "a maximal experience that was absolutely overwhelming." Rhodebeck premiered the third part of the trilogy in Vienna, will be performing it once again in Brooklyn, and on March 28 he comes to Baltimore to perform the three-book, 62-movement, and six-hour journey that is one day may become menace in the Cohen-Davis Family Theatre.

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About Jacob Rhodebeck, piano

Jacob Rhodebeck is a pianist known for his tremendous command of the instrument and his enthusiasm for performing new and little known music. Recently, Mr. Rhodebeck's performance of Michael Hersch's 3-hour solo piano work The Vanishing Pavilions was described as "astounding" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) and "a searing performance" (The New York Times).