Five years ago, Sunset Piano and San Francisco Botanical Garden (SFBG) joined forces to offer the public a uniquely interactive experience of music in nature, placing twelve pianos in some of the Garden’s most beautiful locations and inviting anyone to come and play what they like.

Now, the annual twelve-day-long Flower Piano is one of the Bay Area’s most highly anticipated musical events of the summer and celebrates its fifth year at the Garden with a special anniversary edition, featuring new opportunities for the public to play, more performances by professional musicians, special events for families including the new evening-time Flower Piano at Sunset, a community sing-along, free piano lessons, and three evenings of Flower Piano at Night, a special after dark event with food trucks and outdoor bars.

From July 15th through July 19th, pull up a bench or a patch of grass and enjoy special lunch time concerts by Conservatory of Music students and alumni at the Ancient Plant Garden and Garden of Fragrance. This collaboration is a preview for the theme of the upcoming SFCM season, Music and Nature.

Program I | Ancient Plant Garden

Robert Schumann
Symphonic Etudes, Op.13

George Crumb
Selections from Makrokosmos, Book II

Maurice Ravel
Selections fromTombeau de Couperin

Performers

Tin Yi Wong, piano

Program II | Garden of Fragrance

Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fugue No. 8 in E-flat minor, BWV 853

Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Sonata in D Major Op. 10, No. 3
   I. Presto
   IV. Rondo: Allegro

Robert Schumann
Allegro in B minor, Op. 8

Julio Reyes Copello
Bambuco

Karol Szymanowski
Variations, Op. 3

Performers

Pablo Molano, piano