Boris Berman to Perform at W&L’s Lenfest Center The pianist’s Feb. 1 performance is sponsored by the university’s Concert Guild.

By Emily Innes
January 17, 2025

The Lenfest Center at Washington and Lee University presents acclaimed pianist and pedagogue Boris Berman in concert on Feb. 1 at 8 p.m. in the Wilson Concert Hall in the Lenfest Center for the Arts.

The performance is sponsored by W&L’s Concert Guild, which brings professional performing artists to campus each year for concerts and master classes. Tickets are required and available online or in person at the Lenfest Box Office.

A teacher of international stature, Berman heads the Piano Department at the Yale School of Music and is also the artistic director of the school’s Horowitz Piano Series. He teaches master classes throughout the world and regularly performs and judges at national and international competitions, with recent visits to Austria, Belgium, England, France, Italy, Portugal, Scotland and Spain.

Berman is an active recording artist and Grammy Award nominee. He was the first pianist to record the complete solo piano works by Sergei Prokofiev and has also recorded complete sonatas by Alexander Scriabin, as well as works by Alfred Schnittke, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Carl Maria von Weber, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, César Franck, Dmitri Shostakovich, Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, Luciano Berio, John Cage and Scott Joplin.

In his Feb. 1 performance, Berman will present a program of celebrated works, including Franz Schubert’s Op. 142 (a set of four impromptus) and Debussy’s Suite bergamasque. He will also present a master class that is open to the public on Feb. 2 at 10:30 a.m. in Wilson Concert Hall.

Order your tickets online today or call the Lenfest Center box office at 540-458-8000 for ticket purchase information. Box office hours are Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. The cost is $25 for adults, $20 for seniors and $15 for W&L faculty and staff; students receive free tickets by showing their student identification.

For a full list of this season’s performances, visit the Lenfest Center’s website.

The Lenfest Center for the Arts, home of the Department of Theater, Dance, and Film Studies and the Department of Music and Department of Art and Art History is a multi-use facility designed and equipped to accommodate a broad spectrum of the performing arts, including theater, musical theater, opera and operetta, choral and band music, dance and performance art in one energizing complex.