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Famed Pianist Helps Stamford Symphony Celebrate Valentine's Weekend

STAMFORD, Conn. -- The Stamford Symphony is celebrating Valentine’s Day weekend with Rossini, Elgar, Beethoven and Mozart.

Stephen Hough will perform this weekend at the Stamford Symphony.

Stephen Hough will perform this weekend at the Stamford Symphony.

Photo Credit: Juilliard.edu/Sim Canetty-Clarke

In addition, British-born virtuoso pianist, composer and writer Stephen Hough will be performing with the Symphony on Saturday Feb. 14, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 15, at 3 p.m. at Stamford’s Palace Theatre.

Upstairs @ the Symphony begins on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. Concertgoers will be able to mix and mingle for casual pre-concert cocktail and light dinner in the Upper Lobby at the Palace Theatre before enjoying the concert. This option is sold out.

Music Director Eckart Preu will be visiting the group to warm them up to the program and share a glass of wine.

Over his long and distinguished career as one of the world’s leading concert pianists, Hough has excelled as a pianist, a writer and a composer.

His music awards include the 2001 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (the first classical performing artist to do so), 2008 Northwestern University’s Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano, Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist Award in 2010 and in January 2014 was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth in the New Year’s Honors List.

He has appeared with major European and American orchestras, including the Los Angeles and New York Philharmonics, and Chicago, Boston, Pittsburgh and San Francisco symphonies, among others.

Many of Hough’s catalog of over 50 albums have garnered international prizes, several Grammy nominations, eight Gramophone Magazine Awards and the Gramophone ‘Gold Disc’ Award in 2008 for best recording in the last 30 years.

For more information, visit the Stamford Symphony website.

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