SATURDAY • JULY 20 • 7:30 PM

Steven Lubin’s career as pianist and fortepianist has brought him to many of the great halls of North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, where he has appeared as concerto soloist and recitalist.  His modern-piano performances have been widely praised for their poetry, authority, interpretive freshness and technical excellence, and he is acknowledged worldwide as a founder of the 20th-century fortepiano revival.  His recordings for Decca, Harmonia Mundi USA, Arabesque and Classical Soundings—including his pioneering period-instrument recordings of Mozart concertos and his epoch-making complete cycle of Beethoven concertos on period instruments—have earned international acclaim, as have his recordings of the complete piano trios of Schubert and Mozart.

Scott Timberg has been writing about music, the arts and pop culture for a quarter century. A former staff writer at the Los Angeles Times and Salon, his work has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles magazine, GQ, and the LA Review of Books, where he is a contributing editor.

His 2015 book, Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class, drew extensive press and radio attention all over the US and overseas: Timberg has spoken on the book — which looks at economic, technological, and sociological jolts to artists, writers, and musicians — at conferences and festivals across the United States, Canada, and Ireland. The book won the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award and was hailed by The New Yorker as “a quietly radical rethinking of the very nature of art in modern life.” Some of the book’s concerns show up on the ArtsJournal blog CultureCrash.

Raised in Maryland and educated at Wesleyan University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Timberg lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son. He is currently working on a book called Beeswing: Britain, Folk Rock, and the End of the ‘60s with the guitarist Richard Thompson.