Pianist Stephen Porter returns to the Library with a program that includes Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words, Schubert’s rarely heard Drei Klavierstücke D. 946, completed six months before the composer's death at age 31, and a group of late Chopin works including one of his final masterpieces, the Barcarolle.

Stephen Porter has performed internationally as a soloist at venues that include the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, the Gothenburg Academy of Music and Drama in Sweden, the Sala Villa-Lobos at the University of Rio de Janeiro, Albert Long Hall in Istanbul, LSO St. Luke’s with the Amadeus Orchestra of London, Sarajevo as the featured soloist of the Bosnia International Music Festival, the Malmö Academy of Music in Sweden, and the Rockefeller Foundation at Bellagio, Italy. His recent concerts include the Bangalore International Centre in India and Music Salon Emmanuel in Singapore. Since 2011 he has been an artist resident of the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, and from 2021-24 was Artist in Residence and Research Artist at Texas A&M University Central Texas. Mr. Porter performs and records with two Grammy Award winning artists, bass-baritone Dashon Burton and mezzo-soprano Krista River. He is a graduate of Oberlin College and the New England Conservatory of Music, and his primary teachers were Peter Takacs, Jacob Maxin, and Paul Doguereau, a protégé of Ravel.