2017 Preview /  by Elizabeth Roe

2017 promises to be a jam-packed year: concerts nationwide and abroad; exciting projects for the National YoungArts Foundation, the Joye in Aiken Festival, and The Cliburn; various premieres and collaborations; and new music videos in the works. Watch this space for the latest announcements, and visit the Calendar for details on upcoming tour dates.

End-of-2016 highlights:

Legendary conductor Leonard Slatkin & pianist Elizabeth Joy Roe backstage at Powell Hall 

Legendary conductor Leonard Slatkin & pianist Elizabeth Joy Roe backstage at Powell Hall 

Barber Concerto with St. Louis & Slatkin /  by Elizabeth Roe

Elizabeth has been asked to serve as a last-minute replacement for Olga Kern with the St. Louis Symphony under the direction of Maestro Leonard Slatkin in the Barber Piano Concerto for three concerts this weekend (November 11-13). Slatkin and St. Louis have a legendary connection to Samuel Barber's epic, Pulitzer Prize-winning concerto—25 years ago they recorded it with the great American pianist John Browning (who premiered the Concerto in 1962 for the opening of Lincoln Center), an album that would win a Grammy Award. Synchronistically, Elizabeth gave her first performances of this concerto as a last-minute replacement for Browning in subscription concerts with the Delaware Symphony Orchestra in 2003 (which the Delaware News Journal pronounced as "[a]stonishing [...] Elizabeth Joy Roe, a winner of international competitions and only 21, came to Wilmington and brought an audience to its feet with stunning performances at the three Delaware Symphony concerts. It was a musical moment to treasure"). Elizabeth herself has recorded the concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra for Decca Classics.

Saturday night's concert will be streamed live on St. Louis Public Radio; catch the broadcast at 8 PM Central time.

Washington Post review, radio & more /  by Elizabeth Roe

October continued to be jam-packed, with concerts spanning the United States. Elizabeth had another concerto collaboration with conductor Michael Butterman, giving a repeat performance of the Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini and the Poulenc Double Concerto (with piano duo partner Greg Anderson), this time with the Shreveport Symphony. The Anderson & Roe Piano Duo also joined Maestro Butterman for a preview interview with Louisiana's Red River Radio.

During Anderson & Roe's visit to Colorado earlier in October, they stopped by Colorado Public Radio's studio for an interview and live performance; watch below:

Anderson & Roe closed out the month with two concerts (in Washington, DC, and New York City) celebrating Halloween, centering on their own fiercely virtuosic arrangement of Danse Macabre. Anne Midgette, classical music critic at the Washington Post, reviewed the National Gallery recital, proclaiming:

Anderson and Roe {...] are the very model of complete 21st-century musicians. They fuse classical and pop music into a blend of high artistry and skillful entertainment; they write informative program notes; they talk to the audience from the stage, passing the mic back and forth. That they are crack pianists goes without saying.

Read the rest of the review here.

***FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: Elizabeth's recording of the complete Field Nocturnes is up for Grammy Award consideration on the 2017 ballot. Members of the Recording Academy: please vote!