Saturday, October 11, 2025, 7:30pm
Terrence Wilson, piano
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3
Musorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition

Step into The Big Picture with the Folsom Lake Symphony

Two iconic works. One unforgettable night.

Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 offers a stirring journey from stormy struggle to radiant release, its brooding elegance and bold piano lines a testament to the composer’s genius. Pianist extraordinaire Terrence Wilson leads you on this journey.

Then, experience the musical magic of Pictures at an Exhibition, a vivid tribute to art and memory. Mussorgsky’s original piano suite becomes a dazzling orchestral tour-de-force in the hands of Maurice Ravel, transforming each brushstroke into sound.

This is The Big Picture: a celebration of music’s power to move, paint, and tell stories across time.

Acclaimed by the Baltimore Sun as “one of the biggest pianistic talents to have emerged in this country in the last 25 years” pianist Terrence Wilson has appeared as soloist with the symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Washington, DC (National Symphony), San Francisco, St. Louis, and with the orchestras of Cleveland, Minnesota, and Philadelphia. Abroad, Terrence Wilson has played concertos with such ensembles as the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra in Switzerland, the Malaysian Philharmonic, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and the Orquestra Sinfonica do Estado de Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Terrence Wilson has received several awards and prizes, including the SONY ES Award for Musical Excellence, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and the Juilliard Petschek Award. In 2011, he was nominated for a Grammy in the category of “Best Instrumental Soloist With an Orchestra” for his (world premiere) recording with the Nashville Symphony conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero of Michael Daugherty’s Deus ex Machina for piano and orchestra – written for Wilson in 2007. He serves as a member of the piano faculty at the Brevard Music Center (BMC) Institute and Festival and at the Bard College Conservatory of Music, and is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he studied with Yoheved Kaplinsky.