Keyboard Artist Series

Elizabeth Morgan

Oct. 27, 2026 – 7pm

Program:

Amy Beach
Four Sketches, Op.15
No. 3 Dreaming
J.S. Bach
French Suite No. 3 in B Minor, BWV 814
Suzanne Sorkin – b. 1974
story, silence, sinew (2024)
J.S. Bach Trans. Wilhelm Kempf
Wachet Auf, ruft uns die Stimme
Margaret Bonds
Troubled Water

Artist Bio:

A native of Oakland, California, Elizabeth Morgan is a historical musicologist and pianist. Her research interests include keyboard and chamber music of the long nineteenth century, music and the body, virtuosity, and music and gender in the United States and Great Britain. She has published articles in 19th-century Music, the Journal of the Society for American Music, and Nineteenth-Century Music Review and she has contributed to collections published by Ashgate and Routledge. As a pianist, Professor Morgan has performed throughout the US, as well as abroad. She frequently gives conversational and lecture recitals, where she introduces musical works with commentary from the keyboard, often tying programs together with a common theme or idea. In recent seasons, she has performed as soloist with orchestras on both coasts, including Carnival of the Animals with the Seattle Symphony, Gershwin Concerto in F with the Williamsport Symphony, and the Beethoven Triple Concerto with the Pennsylvania Chamber Orchestra, and she has given lecture recitals at countless American universities. She received her undergraduate and master’s degrees in piano performance at Juilliard, and completed a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano at UCLA, concurrently with her Ph.D in musicology.

Professor Morgan teaches music history, piano performance, and chamber music at St. Joe’s. She lives outside of Philadelphia with her husband and their two sons.

Christopher Guzman

Feb. 2, 2027 – 7pm

Program:

Variations of Ludwig Van Beethoven

Artist Bio:

Pianist Christopher Guzman performs internationally as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral pianist, in repertoire ranging from the Baroque to the avant-garde. Since winning top prizes in international competitions–including the Naumburg Competition (USA), the Seoul International Music Competition (S. Korea), the Isang Yun Competition (S. Korea), and the Concours International de Piano d’Orléans (France)–Mr. Guzman has performed throughout Europe, North and South America, and Asia. His concert appearances include such major venues as Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, Leipzig’s Gewandhaus, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Seoul Arts Center, and Carnegie Hall. A sought-after chamber musician, he regularly collaborates with soloists and members of the world’s finest orchestras, from Berlin to San Francisco to Seoul. He is a tenured member of Chicago’s Grant Park Symphony Orchestra, and has also served as an orchestral pianist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

A central focus of Guzman’s work is music written after 1900; his performances include world premieres by Donald Martino, Nico Muhly, and Paul Schoenfield, and debut recordings of works by Peter Ablinger and Jörg Widmann. The New York Times hailed his performance of Christopher Theofanidis’s Statues as “coiled” and “explosive.” He frequently returns to France under the auspices of the Concours International de Piano d’Orléans, an organization promoting contemporary piano repertoire.

A native Texan, Mr. Guzman studied at The Juilliard School, the New England Conservatory, and the University of Texas at Austin. He is Professor of Piano at the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University.