Described by The Guardian as "furchtlos, umwerfend, einzigartig" — fearless, overwhelming, unique — Tamara Stefanovich is one of the leading interpreters of contemporary piano repertoire today, known equally for her close collaborations with living composers and her ability to place their work in deep conversation with the canon. Among her closest artistic relationships is that with György Kurtág, whose music runs as a thread throughout this program.

Dialogues is precisely what its title promises — a program structured around listening and response across centuries. Bach is not a point of departure here so much as a persistent presence: his counterpoint, his architecture, his sense of music as ordered thought animate the entire evening, surfacing explicitly in the Capriccio that opens the recital and in the monumental closing pages of the Art of Fugue. Between those anchors, Kurtág, Debussy, Liszt, Ligeti, Scriabin, Abrahamsen, and living composers respond, refract, and push back. The program moves not in a straight line but as a conversation does: doubling back, interrupting itself, arriving at unexpected intimacies. In Stefanovich's hands, five centuries of piano writing reveal themselves to be not a history but a single, ongoing argument.