Dreams and Devotion: Schumann’s Fantasy
and works for cello and piano

Friday, January 23, 2026 – Buy Tickets
7:30pm Hillary Nordwell’s Music Studio (Bellevue, WA)

Saturday, January 24, 2026 – Buy Tickets
5pm Private Residence (Seattle, WA)

Hillary Nordwell, piano
Megan Titensor, cello

Romances, Op. 94
Fantasy, Op. 17
Adagio & Allegro, Op. 70

Schumann wrote his Fantasy, Op. 17 during the turbulent time of his engagement to Clara Wieck, whose father (Schumann’s piano teacher) forbid them to spend time together. Music was one of the few tools at their disposal to communicate, and the Fantasy contained messages from Schumann meant to be understood by his fiancee. The Romances, Op. 94 and Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70 were written during a relatively stable period of Robert’s and Clara’s married life. Originally written for oboe and horn with piano, these works have been transcribed for many instruments, including cello.

To the Distant Beloved: Song Cycles of Beethoven and Schumann

Saturday, March 21, 2026
6pm – Mercer Hall – Northwest Pianos
Bellevue, WA

Ann Moss, soprano
Hillary Nordwell, piano

Experience love and longing through two of the great German song cycles, Schumann’s Liederkreis Op. 39 and Beethoven’s An die Ferne Geliebte, complimented by the Schumann Fantasy for Piano.