LILY FRIEDMAN & FRIENDS
Celebration Recital Benefiting Summertrios
Friday December 4, 2026 • 7:30 pm
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
Summertrios co-founder Lily Friedman celebrates a lifetime of musical discovery, growth, and community in a deeply personal program featuring longtime collaborators and Summertrios faculty Giancarlo Latta, Andrew Knebel, and Andrey Tchekmazov.
Following publication of a New York Times profile of Lily in August 2026, she has reconnected with oodles of friends and collaborators from over the years – including one former student who recalled his time studying with Lily so fondly that he generously offered to sponsor this recital at Carnegie Hall!
Lily has designated concert proceeds to benefit Summertrios in honor of the organization's 35th anniversary.
CONCERT PROGRAM
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Vocalise Op. 34, No. 14 for cello and piano
Johannes Brahms
Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
LILY FRIEDMAN
Summertrios co-founder and Music Director Emerita Lily Friedman was a founding member of The New York Piano Trio, winner of the Artists International Competition, and awarded a debut performance at Carnegie’s Weill Hall. She has been a participant in the Marlboro Festival, the Orono, Maine Festival, and has performed in a large variety of chamber ensembles throughout the New York metropolitan area and New England as well as in France and the former Soviet Union. Among her more notable performances are the entire Beethoven Sonatas for Piano and Violin with New York Philharmonic violinist Anna Rabinova as well as the entire Beethoven oeuvre for piano and cello with Juilliard professor Andre Emelianoff.
Friedman holds a Masters Degree from The Juilliard School where she was a student of Beveridge Webster and an ABD in the Doctoral Program at Teachers College of Columbia University. Independently, she studied piano with Irma Wolpe, and chamber music with Menahem Pressler, Arthur Balsam, Isidore Cohen, Rudolf Serkin, and Joseph Fuchs. She has been a performing participant in the Menahem Pressler Master Classes for the past 25 years.
