Tuesday, August 11, 2026 • 2 PM

Unmuting Masterworks at the Evolving Keyboard

Encounters are FREE afternoon events, featuring intriguing lectures, discussions, performances, and diverse perspectives. Framed around the festival’s theme, Making History, these events illuminate how music is created, influenced, interpreted, performed—and how it shapes culture across time.

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Returning to La Jolla Music Society, award‑winning concert pianist and educator Dr. Angie Zhang offers an illuminating Encounter lecture-recital that reimagines masterworks through the lens of the keyboard’s evolution.

The first and only American to win a top prize at the Chopin International Piano Competition on Period Instruments, Zhang is widely recognized as one of the leading American period‑instrument specialists of the 21st century and has counted Yoheved Kaplinsky, Joseph Kalichstein, Robert Levin, and Wu Han among influential teachers.

Drawing on international experience as a performer, clinician, and recording artist—including a two‑disc release on three historical keyboards for the Chopin Institute in Warsaw—this program has been created especially for La Jolla Music Society. Audiences will hear masterworks performed on three distinct instruments: the world’s most ornate Viennese fortepiano reproduction, an original Broadwood piano from Beethoven’s era, and the modern concert grand.

In a special homecoming, the restored Broadwood, which was purchased in La Jolla, makes its debut in The Baker‑Baum Concert Hall for its long‑awaited showcase.

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