Fresh Air

About This Concert

Spectrum’s 2026–27 season begins with the return of Spectrum favorite, 2022 Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition winner Jon Lee.

Lee opens the concert with solo piano music of Robert Schumann before joining trumpeter Oscar Garcia for Robert Denham’s Transformatio, winner of the 2026 Spectrum Composition Award. Prior to the performance of Transformatio, composer Robert Denham will join us onstage for a brief conversation about the inspiration behind the work.

The program concludes with Beethoven’s youthful Quintet in E-flat Major for Piano and Winds, Op. 16, featuring Lee and an ensemble of Spectrum musicians in a finale that may just take your breath away.

Program

• Fantasiestücke
  Robert Schumann Op. 12
  20 minutes
  1. 1. Des Abends
  2. 4. Grillen
  Jon Lee (Piano)
• Transformatio
  Robert Denham
  1. I. Veritas
  2. II.
  3. III.
  Oscar Garcia-Montoya (Trumpet), Jon Lee (Piano)
• Quintet for Piano and Winds
  Ludwig van Beethoven Op. 16
  25 minutes
  1. I. Grave - Allegro con brio
  2. II. Andante cantabile
  3. III. Rondo (Allegro)
  Tamer Edlebi (Oboe), Ivan Petruzziello (Clarinet), Kody Harrington (Bassoon), Jon Lee (Piano), Gerry Wood (Horn)