Hayes Piano Series

Clayton Stephenson, piano

Saturday, March 15, 2025, 2:00 PM

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Terrace Theater

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Hayes Piano Series
Clayton Stephenson, piano
Saturday, March 15, 2025 / 2:00 p.m.
Kennedy Center Terrace Theater

“Stephenson is not just a remarkable virtuoso, but a poet, a dramatist and a master story-teller.” – Gramophone

Finalist in the 2022 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and 2022 Gilmore Young Artist Awardee Clayton Stephenson brings an innate musicality and exuberance to his Hayes Piano Series debut at the Terrace Theater. At age 10 he advanced to Juilliard’s elite Pre-College program, and he now studies in the Harvard-New England Conservatory Dual Degree Program, pursuing a bachelor’s in economics and a master’s degree in piano performance. Stephenson’s captivating artistry will be on full display in a recital program spanning works by Schubert, Stravinski, Gershwin, and more.

This performance is an external rental presented in coordination with the Kennedy Center Campus Rentals Office and is not produced by the Kennedy Center.

Program Details

Franz Schubert – 4 Impromptus, D. 899
Igor Stravinsky – Trios mouvements de Petrouchka
Harold Arlen arr. Keith Jarrett – “Over the Rainbow”
George Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue

Our Partners

This performance is made possible through the generous support of an anonymous donor.

The Hayes Piano Series is made possible in part through the generous support of Susan S. Angell and Lynn Rhomberg.

Washington Performing Arts’s classical music performances this season are made possible in part through the generous support of Betsy and Robert Feinberg and the Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts.

Special thanks to the following lead supporters of Washington Performing Arts’s mission-driven work: Jacqueline Badger Mars and Mars, Incorporated; D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities; the National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs Program and the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts; and The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.