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 - Rising Stars: 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, Rey Winn , baritone, with Hannah St. Romain, SMU staff accompanist, collaborative piano
Update June 22: Rey Winn will replace Bradley Ritschel in this role due to an mild injury. We wish Bradley a swift recovery and welcome and thank Rey Winn for stepping into this role!
3:00pm - Featured Artist Sara Daneshpour performs Liszt: Études d'exécution transcendante, S.139
Pianist Sara Daneshpour has worldwide audiences and critics spellbound with her “blazing technique, power, expressivity, imagination and stage presence” (The New York Concert Review), establishing herself as one of the most refined artists of her generation.