Concert Pianist Ludovic Zamor | DIVINUS: Liszt Transcriptions

About This Event

One of Long Island's own returns home — and brings Carnegie Hall with him.

Hicksville native Ludovic Zamor is one of the most compelling concert pianists of his generation: a Canadian-American artist whose lineage as a musician traces directly back through his teacher Maestro Avraham Sternklar to Busoni, to Liszt, and to Beethoven himself. He debuted at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall at 18, performs regularly at Steinway Hall, and this past December performed his acclaimed program Divinus: Liszt Piano Transcriptions at Carnegie Hall.

Before taking Divinus to the Seattle Symphony at Benaroya Hall in June, Zamor brings it home — to the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City, where he will perform on the Cathedral's historic Steinway grand piano beneath Gaia: artist Luke Jerram's spectacular 20-foot rotating sculpture of planet Earth, suspended in the Cathedral's 140-year-old Gothic nave. The effect of Liszt's transcendent piano writing in that setting — candlelight, ancient stone, and the slowly turning Earth overhead — is not something easily described. It is something to be experienced.

Divinus is a program built around Franz Liszt's extraordinary piano transcriptions — works in which Liszt reimagined the music of the great composers for solo piano with a brilliance and daring that has never been surpassed. The program features transcriptions of works by Beethoven, Mozart, and Paganini, performed with the interpretive depth and technical mastery that has defined Zamor's career.

Liszt himself was described by those who heard him as something other-worldly — a force of nature at the keyboard that left audiences shaken. Under Gaia, with our planet suspended above and slowly turning, that language feels newly apt.

The Program

Divinus: Liszt Piano Transcriptions Works by Beethoven, Mozart, and Paganini, transcribed for solo piano by Franz Liszt

The Setting

The Cathedral of the Incarnation 36 Cathedral Avenue, Garden City, NY 11530

Built in 1885, the Cathedral of the Incarnation is the historic cathedral church of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island. From April 25 through May 31, 2026, its soaring Gothic nave is home to Gaia — Luke Jerram's internationally acclaimed 20-foot rotating sculpture of planet Earth, built from detailed NASA imagery and lit from within, accompanied by a specially commissioned surround sound composition by BAFTA award-winning composer Dan Jones. Gaia has been experienced by more than eight million people in over 30 countries; this is its first exhibition in a U.S. house of worship.

The Zamor recital is performed within the installation — making it one of the most singular concert experiences available anywhere this spring.

Parking is available on the Cathedral Close. The building is accessible.

About Ludovic Zamor

Ludovic Zamor began studying music theory, harmony, and piano at age three, taught by his father. By 13 he had won first place in New York's interscholastic music competition performing Beethoven's Pathétique Sonata. At 18 he debuted at Carnegie Hall. He has since become a celebrated interpreter of the Romantic repertoire — specializing in the music of Liszt, a lineage he inhabits not just as a performer but as a direct musical descendant, through a master-pupil chain running from his teacher back through Busoni to Liszt himself.

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