Paul Lewis, piano

MOZART+1

Replacing Joyce Yang due to injury

NEC's Jordan Hall

SAT APR 18 8PM

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Performance Update

Paul Lewis has stepped in to replace Joyce Yang, who is experiencing a temporary injury and will be unable to perform. She hopes to return to Vivo Performing Arts in a future season.
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British pianist Paul Lewis brings an installment of his 2026 touring project, the Mozart+ initiative, to Boston with a program that feels both grounded and expansive.

Set alongside Poulenc’s tenderness and sly humor and Debussy’s flashes of joy and color, two sonatas by Mozart unfold with fresh emotional weight.

Beloved by audiences for his beautifully calibrated and searching accounts of Schubert and Beethoven, Lewis reaches for new expressive ground with his Mozart+ series. He invites us to be curious: to listen to often-overlooked works in a new light and to hear how Mozart's piano sonatas echo through the works of composers who followed.

“It all matters, every single note matters so much”
Paul Lewis, on Mozart's piano music

Program Details

MOZART+1

Program notes to come.

Improvisation No 7 in C major
Improvisation No 8 in A minor
Improvisation No 9 in D major
Improvisation No 10 in F major 'Éloge des gammes'
Improvisation No 11 in G minor
Improvisation No 12 in E flat major 'Hommage à Schubert'

Program notes to come.

Improvisation No 1 in B minor
Improvisation No 2 in A flat major
Improvisation No 3 in B minor
Improvisation No 4 in A flat major
Improvisation No 5 in A minor
Improvisation No 6 in B flat major
Improvisation No 13 in A minor
Improvisation No 14 in D flat major
Improvisation No 15 in C minor 'Hommage à Edith Piaf'

Program notes to come.

Videos

interviews and performance excerpts with pianist Paul Lewis — Paul Lewis talks Mozart and finding his way in classical music

NEC's Jordan Hall

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This performance is an Aaron Richmond Recital, named in honor of Vivo Performing Arts's founder, and endowed by his daughter Nancy Richmond Winsten and her late husband Dr. Joseph Winsten.