In-Person Event: Friday Night Music with Stephen Lewis
Terwilliger Plaza celebrates art in all its many forms, including a weekly listening event for the music lovers among us—Friday Night Music. Members and guests of Terwilliger Plaza are invited to enjoy a live musical performance in the Auditorium or listen in on Channel 981.
Dr. Stephen Lewis (b. 1983) is a composer, pianist, and educator living in Portland, Oregon. The rare embodiment of the composer-pianist, Stephen (pronounced STEE-ven) performs traditional piano music with a composer’s urgent, expressive power, while bringing to avant-garde and experimental music a classical concert pianist’s devotion to beautiful sound. He searches for rawness and immediacy in his interpretations of Beethoven and Chopin, while winning over audiences with moving renditions of complex atonal works by composers like Schoenberg, Stockhausen, and Ligeti. Whether from the present or the past, Stephen performs music that he believes has important and touching implications for today’s world. Even the most demanding music, he argues, is an opportunity for connection, edification, and meaningful experience.
For information about Stephen’s teaching studio, visit chopinois.
Location: Terwilliger Plaza Auditorium.
RSVP by emailing membership@terwilligerplaza.com or calling 503-808-7870.