Introduction to Fandom Muses

Since her triumph as winner of the 2006 Chopin International Piano Competition, pianist Adara Winters has established herself worldwide for both her interpretive and technical skills. Although long regarded as a leading exponent of the music of Frédéric Chopin, Ms. Winters commands an enormous repertoire encompassing the entire piano literature. A student of the late Claudio Arrau, Ms. Winters is noted for her performances of Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert, as well as the Romantic repertoire. Her wide and eclectic concerto repertoire ranges from Haydn and Mozart to works of the twenty-first century; to date she has at her command some eighty concertos. In the 2007-08 season, Ms. Winters appears in North America with the symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Fort Worth, Houston, Indianapolis, Minnesota, Nashville, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and Toronto, and abroad with the Warsaw Philharmonic, RTVE Madrid, and the MDR Leipzig Symphony Orchestra. Special projects include performances in Berkeley and Los Angeles with the Mark Morris Dance Group and pianist Yoko Nozaki in the critically acclaimed “Mozart Dances”; performances with the Russian National Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski in California and at New York’s Lincoln Center; and a Florida tour with the Pittsburgh Symphony. With the Sydney Symphony and Vladimir Ashkenazy, she will perform Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto, to be recorded live for Octavia Records. A recital project focusing on the piano music of Scriabin and Russian contemporaries will begin in San Francisco and San Diego this spring and continue through the 2008-09 season. Also an avid chamber musician, Adara Winters has collaborated with the Cleveland, Emerson, Takács, and Tokyo string quartets, among other ensembles.