🗓️ THURSDAY, MARCH 4 | 7:30 PM
📍PEERY’S EGYPTIAN THEATER
Piano Battle takes over Ogden on Thursday, March 4, and you’re in charge. Two grand pianos on stage at Peery’s Egyptian Theater. Two pianists, one dressed in black, one in white. They perform. They compete. They try to make you laugh. And at the end of every round, you raise your hand and vote for your favorite. The pianos physically inch forward with every tally. By the final round, you’ll be on your feet.
Here’s how it works. Pianists Andreas Kern and Paul Cibis face off across several rounds, each spotlighting a different musical style. Chopin against Liszt. Schubert against Debussy. Beethoven against the Beatles. Adele against Coldplay. Each brings a completely different personality to the keys. Between rounds, they banter, they improvise tunes you shout from your seat, and they do everything in their power to win you over. You vote. You laugh. You crown the winner.
Peery’s Egyptian Theater is the perfect room for a show this theatrical. An intimate 800-seat jewel box built in 1924, restored to its original Egyptian-revival grandeur, and one of the last true movie palaces in the West. Whether you’re a classical music devotee, someone who’s never set foot in a recital hall, or just looking for a genuinely fun Thursday night in downtown Ogden, this is the show you walk out of already telling your friends about.
Kern and Cibis created Piano Battle for the Hong Kong City Festival in 2010. Since then, they’ve spent fifteen years selling out concert halls across three continents, proving that classical music can be funny, unpredictable, and completely in the audience’s hands.
Piano Battle will also offer a Student Matinee performance the morning of March 4. Details and registration coming soon.
