Allegra Chapman at the Maybeck Studio

Allegra Chapman at the Maybeck Studio

Pianist Allegra Chapman presents a Sunday afternoon recital telling stories of love, loss, and resilience.

The program features romantic piano miniatures from Robert Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn alongside a heartfelt suite by Harry Burleigh inspired by African American musical traditions, and the virtuosic and fiery etudes of Polish composer Grazyna Bacewicz.

Each set of pieces strongly evokes an era and place while weaving a moving narrative. Allegra will also premiere several new works by Bay Area composer Benjamin Pesetsky.

The Music (selections)
Robert Schumann - Fantasiestücke, Op. 12
Fanny Mendelssohn - Vier Lieder das Pianoforte, Op. 6
Benjamin Pesetsky - For the New Year, Piano Ballade, and Intermezzo
Grazyna Bacewicz - 10 Studies
Harry Burleigh - From the Southland

About Allegra

Acclaimed by the San Francisco Chronicle for her “fervid but impeccably controlled” performances, pianist Allegra Chapman is driven by her passion for connecting audiences with historically overlooked and living composers. With a wide-ranging repertoire of music from Bach to Ligeti, she maintains a busy concert schedule as soloist and chamber musician. Allegra is a member of Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, and Chordless duo with soprano Sara LeMesh. She has performed internationally at venues including Cal Performances, Alice Tully Hall, San Francisco Jazz Center, and Xi’an Concert Hall. In 2023, her duo Chordless won First Prize in the Federation of the Art Song Fellowship Competition in New York. From 2020-2023, Allegra was the pianist of the award winning Delphi Trio and from 2017-2020, she was the founding co-artistic director and executive director of the critically acclaimed festival Bard Music West, a San Francisco-based branch of the Bard Music Festival that explored the worlds of composers from the past 100 years.

Allegra is a graduate of the Bard Conservatory of Music and The Juilliard School. She is on faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s Pre-College division and makes her home in San Francisco with her family and over 1000 books.

Visit www.allegrachapman.com for more about Allegra.