PLAINFIELD – Plainfield Arts presents pianist Diana Fanning in concert on Sunday, March 8, at 4 p.m., at the Plainfield Opera House. This recital celebrates Fanning’s fifty years of teaching at Middlebury College, reflecting a career devoted to musical education.
Fanning has curated a program highlighting composers who challenged conventions and reshaped the classical tradition. The recital features Chopin’s “Sonata in B Minor,” a cornerstone of the Romantic piano repertoire, and Janáček’s “On an Overgrown Path,” a personal and autobiographical work. Favorite selections by Beethoven and Debussy complete the program.
Fanning has toured as a solo performer and chamber musician throughout the U.S. and in England, France, Austria, Switzerland, Holland, the Czech Republic, Canada and Germany. In recent years she has performed at the Schloss Leopoldskron (“Sound of Music” castle) in Salzburg, and in Prague at the invitation of the International Dvorak Society.She has performed as a concerto soloist with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. She was featured as soloist in a performance of Beethoven’s “Piano Concerto No. 3” in the debut concert of the Champlain Philharmonic Orchestra and was invited back for performances of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.”
Fanning’s performances have been featured on Vermont Public Television, Vermont Public Radio, Radio Prague, WGBH Boston, and WNYC New York.
Admission is by donation, with tickets available online (plainfieldartsvt.org) and at the door. The Plainfield Town Hall Opera House is wheelchair accessible and assisted listening devices are available upon request.
