Basically Beethoven Festival - July 12, 2026 - Concert #1
Sun, Jul 12
|Moody Performance Hall
Featured Artist: Sara Daneshpour, piano Rising Stars: SMU Meadows Voice Students present Menotti's The Telephone
Time & Location
Jul 12, 2026, 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Moody Performance Hall, 2520 Flora St, Dallas, TX 75201, USA
About the event
Sunday, July 12, 2026
2:30pm - Performer Diploma Students in the Music Division of the Meadows School of the Arts, SMU, present Gian Carlo Menotti's The Telephone* Kathryn Piña, soprano, Bradley Ritschel, baritone, with Hannah St. Romain, SMU staff accompanist, collaborative piano
3:00pm - Featured Artist Sara Daneshpour performs Liszt: Études d'exécution transcendante, S.139 Born in Washington, DC, into an Iranian-American family, Sara Daneshpour has studied under the direction of Leon Fleisher at the Curtis Institute of Music, with Yoheved Kaplinsky and Oleg Volkov at the Juilliard School, and with Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Ms. Daneshpour previously was on the faculty at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and has joined the faculty of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, in 2025.
*The Telephone (L’amour a Trois), Opera Music by Gian Carlo Menotti, Libretto by the Composer, Presented under license from G. Schirmer, Inc., copyright owners.