Winner, Astral Artists’ 2010 National Auditions
Pianist Sara Daneshpour’s performances have earned high praise from audiences and critics alike. The Washington Post wrote of her performance with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, “she created transfixing poetry. And she found delightful details in the passagework and incidents that other pianists treat as routine.” The Baltimore Sun said she “delivered a powerhouse account of Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No. 1, producing enough tone for two pianists in the process,” while The Mercury News called the performance “…sensational. Strength, finesse, passion; it was all there.”
The winner of many international competition awards, Ms. Daneshpour was just named the First Prize winner of the XII Concours International de Musique du Maroc (Morocco, 2012). She also captured First Prize, Gold Medal, and Audience Award winner at the VI International Russian Music Piano Competition in San Jose, and was the Second Prize winner of the 2007 William Kapell International Piano Competition. She joined the roster of Astral Artists as a winner of its 2010 National Auditions.
Ms. Daneshpour has performed extensively in her native Washington, D.C., and has appeared in performance in New York, Philadelphia, and Cleveland, and internationally in Canada, Japan, Russia, Germany, Finland, Greece, Denmark, and Sweden. She has appeared on the stages of such prestigious venues as the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, and the Great Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, and has been broadcast nationwide on 160 public radio stations, including Boston’s venerable WGBH.
Ms. Daneshpour recently gave a recital in Paris’ Musée d’Orsay and returned to Paris for a recital at the Salle Cortot. Other recent engagements include Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in Maryland’s Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Bucks County Symphony, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 with the Simon Sinfonietta, a performance for the Vancouver Chopin Society, solo recitals on the Steinway Series, at Texas A&M International University, the Chopin Foundation of the United States, and in Cape Cod, an appearance in concert at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C, and her debut on Astral’s series, in the Philadelphia Brahms Festival.
Ms. Daneshpour performs Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 2 with Maestro Peter Bay at the Britt Festival in Jacksonville, Oregon in the summer of 2012. Also upcoming is a solo recital in Normandy, France, and her concerto debut with Symphony in C on Astral’s series.
Sara Daneshpour is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Leon Fleisher. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree at The Juilliard School, where she studies with Yoheved Kaplinsky.
Updated: APRIL 2012
