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Purchase single tickets online
Tickets at $25 per adult go on sale from Eventbrite four weeks before the concert date,
or on the day of the concert at the VPAC box office (open one hour before curtain time, tel. 203.837.8732).
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Ilya Yakushev, piano
Sunday, March 22, 2026, at 3 p.m.
Critics and audiences on three continents have applauded his keyboard artistry. The program features works by Beethoven (“Pathétique”), Gershwin “Three Preludes”), and Liszt (Consolation No. 3 “Mephisto Waltz”).
“Mr. Yakushev can do just about anything he wants.”
—The New York Times
“An astounding debut...with vigor and vitality....”
—San Francisco Chronicle
Website for Ilya Yakushev
Program for the March 22, 2026 Concert
- Johann Sebastian Bach, "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring”
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata in C minor, Op.13 "Pathetique"
- Frédéric Chopin, Nocturne in C-sharp minor
- George Gershwin, Three Preludes
- Alexander Scriabin: Prelude for the Left Hand Alone in C-sharp minor, and Nocturne for the Left Hand Alone in D-flat major
- Sergei Rachmaninoff: Prelude in G sharp minor, Op.32; Prelude in G minor, Op.23; Prelude in C sharp minor, Op.3
- Franz Liszt: Vallée d’Obermann (from Années de pèlerinage), and Mephisto Waltz No.1
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Cellist Sophie Shao & Friends
Sunday, June 7, 2026, at 3 p.m.
Sophie Shao returns to Danbury with guest artists Carmit Zori (violin), Rebecca Young (viola), Max Zeugner (bass), and Amy I-lin Cheng (piano) to perform Elena Ruehr's Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2, Charles Ives' Piano Trio (to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the nation's founding), and
Schubert's joyously lyrical Quintet for Piano and Strings (the “Trout”).
“eloquent and powerful”
—The New York Times
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