Making her San Francisco recital debut, Gilmore Young Artist Janice Carissa plays with “the multicolored highlights of a mature pianist” — bringing Bach, Philip Glass, Rzewski, and Prokofiev's towering Eighth Sonata to Noe Music in a wide-ranging, carefully crafted afternoon.

MacArthur Fellow and Avery Fisher Prize winner Jeremy Denk is celebrated for “performances of vast imagination, beauty, profundity, and wit” — and this program delivers: Bach, the incandescent Études of Unsuk Chin, a rediscovered gem by Hélène de Montgeroult, and Beethoven's final two sonatas in a single, revelatory afternoon.

Scottish pianist Steven Osborne OBE — described as having “that special ability to make music that you thought you knew inside out seem fresh and totally alive” — closes the season with “Reflections on the Waltz”, moving from Schumann, Satie, and Ravel to Beethoven's towering Diabelli Variations in an afternoon of extraordinary range and depth.