Please join us for an evening of music with pianist Amanda Gessler at Schmitt Music Denver on Saturday, November 13 at 6:00PM MST – free and open to the pubic!

Ms. Gessler’s program at Schmitt Music will include pieces by Ludwig Van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms – click here to view the program. This concert is free and open to the public!

RSVP is required; attendance limited to 40. Please call 303-777-1900 or email us at dnkb@schmittmusic.com to RSVP.

Watch Amanda Gessler perform Beethoven’s Sonata Op. 28 “Pastoral”- 4th Movement below:

Amanda Gessler

Amanda Gessler is known for her deeply insightful and emotionally charged performances across the United States and Europe. As a First Prize Winner of the Bradshaw & Buono Internation Piano competition, she made her Carnegie Hall debut in May, 2014. She embraces a broad repertoire and enjoys a special connection with the muisc of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert.
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Hailing from rural northern Wisconsin, Ms. Gessler found an intense attachment to music at an early age. As the first musician in her family, she discovered Beethoven on a cassette tape featuring piano music with nature sounds in the background, which she played so many times that she had to rewind it by hand. The long winters and isolation provided the perfect setting to develop a deeply personal relationship with the great solo works of the piano literature.
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She was first noticed as a prizewinner in the Chicago Symphony Concerto Competition at age sixteen, and received a full scholarship to study at the Interlochen Summer Arts Academy. She has since traveled widely and given performances at the Aspen Music Festival, the Duxbury Festival in Massachusetts, the Institute for European Studies in Vienna and the Wilhelm Kempff Foundation Beethoven Course in Positano, Italy. She is a laureate of the MTNA Steinway Young Artist Competition and her performances have been broadcast on Colorado Public radio and on Irish National Television in the documentary film “Beethoven Bootcamp”.
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Gessler earned a Bachelor of Music degree magna cum laude under Anthony Padilla at the Lawrence Conservatory of Music in Appleton, Wisconsin and a Master of Music at Indiana University’s Jacob’s School of Music under Distinguished Professor, Menahem Pressler. She followed her master degree with futher study under pianist, John O’Conor at Shenandoah University. Currently, she resides in Aspen, Colorado where she is an active performer and teacher. Learn more at www.amandagessler.com.