Emeritus Artists
Emeritus Artists are Piano Spheres’ founders and former Core Artists who continue to perform, inspire and provide artistic leadership.
Gloria Cheng – Root Progressions
Gloria Cheng presents Root Progressions featuring premieres of six solo piano commissions from six acclaimed jazz composers: Linda May Han Oh, Jon Jang, Arturo O’Farrill, Anthony Davis, James Newton and Gernot Wolfgang, all celebrated trailblazers representing various streams of global contemporary classical composition and forward-looking jazz. This program is a co-production with the Angel City Jazz Festival, and will feature solo sets by pianist Cheng, as well as duo sets led by composer/guest performers Linda May Han Oh and Jon Jang. Concert at Zipper Hall
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Mark Robson
Mark Robson has been hailed by the Los Angeles Times as a pianist with “one of the great techniques,” “an inquiring mind” and a performer capable of evoking an “exquisite engulfing pastel haze,” and he continues to impress with his multi-faceted career as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher.
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Susan Svrček – A Founding Member of Piano Spheres 1950-2022
Pianist Susan Svrček has established a versatile career that encompasses critically acclaimed solo, chamber, and orchestral appearances in the United States and abroad. A winner of the Concert Artists’ Guild International Competition in New York, she made her debut in Carnegie Recital Hall.
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