Music Matters: Duo Stephanie & Saar December 20, 2025

Описание: Music Matters, La Grua Center, Stonington, CT, USA
20th concert video | Saturday, 20 December 2026

Live performance by
DUO STEPHANIE & SAAR
Stephanie Ho & Saar Ahuvia, piano duo
1882 Erard concert grand and 1930 Mason & Hamlin parlour grand

BEETHOVEN on TWO PIANOS
00:00 introduction
00:18 MM prelude Schumann Chorale in G
01:35 Beethoven Razumovsky Qt. in C, Op. 59/3 1. Introduzione
10:14 Beethoven "Pastorale" Symphony No. 6 in F 1. Allegro, ma non troppo
21:37 Beethoven "Pastorale" 2. Andante molto moto
33:54 Beethoven "Pastorale" 3. Allegro
38:42 Beethoven "Pastorale" 4. Allegro
40:38 Beethoven "Pastorale" 5. Allegretto
50:24 [encore] J. S. Bach-Myra Hess Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
54:25 credits & support
Duration 54:53

© 2025 La Grua Center ℗ 2025 Duo Stephanie & Saar

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Pianists STEPHANIE HO and SAAR AHOVIA are among the best-known North American players of team piano repertoire. Stephanie received degrees in religion and piano performance from Oberlin College, attended Northwestern University, and studied with Julian Martin at Baltimore's Peabody Institute. Saar studied at the Tel Aviv Academy and the Musikhochschule Schaffhausen (CH), before pursuing graduate degrees with Leon Fleischer at Peabody. The two met at Peabody while reading through four-hands transcriptions of Beethoven quartets, a project Fleischer encouraged. Stephanie and Saar married in 2005.

In their ongoing, probing recording studio work, Duo Stephanie & Saar rediscover repertoire with concomitant classical and contemporary sensi-bilities. Bach Crossings, the duo's début album on New Focus Recordings, does insightful justice to György Kurtág's whimsical, soulful four-hand Bach transcriptions. Their initial album in a series traversing all of the four-hand transcriptions of the Beethoven string quartets bears the incisive title, Beethoven Dialogues. Inevitably, they circled back to Bach with The Art of Fugue, which they recorded variously solo and on two pianos.

The duo are also the founders and artistic directors of the Portland-based Makrokosmos Project, an acclaimed new-music festival in Oregon that showcases American composers of our time. Among the many featured composers are Kenji Bunch, Gabriela Lena Frank, Caroline Shaw, Julia Wolfe, John Luther Adams, Karen Tanaka, Michael Johanson, and Alexander Schwarzkopf. The duo are big audience favorites at [Le] Poisson Rouge, New York City’s hip arts cabaret, always selling out their regular shows at the club. Stephanie and Saar are also irrepressible outdoor enthusiasts who can often be found perched atop granite boulders high on the Appalachian Trail in the Northeast, or hiking backcountry trails along the high peaks of the Pacific Northwest (when free of snow).

https://StephSaarDuo.com
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