NEW YORK (November 10, 2022) — Pianist, curator, host, and Performance Today’s 2022 Classical Woman of the Year Lara Downes performs a recital at Wave Hill’s Armor Hall on Sunday, December 11 at 2:00 p.m. The program, titled “Where Dreams Begin,” features a preview of Downes’ upcoming album Love at Last — to be released by Pentatone on Earth Day 2023 — featuring music by composers from around the world that expresses a message of global unity and the power of shared human experiences and desires across cultures and continents. From the album, Downes gives the world premiere of Clarice Assad’s A World of Change (in its solo version), J.S. Bach’s Sleepers Awake (in a seldom-heard arrangement by Ignaz Friedman), and her own arrangement of Margaret Bonds’ I Believe: Credo, No. 2, as heard recently on NPR’s Morning Edition.

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