Piano Lecture-Recital

Family Piano Co. of Waukegan, IL, has invited me to their piano showroom to perform on their featured Sauter grand piano as part of their concert series. My great love for the exquisite Sauter pianos dates back to my student days in Paris where I had an opportunity to discover their unique tonal palette. The lecture-recital will consisted of a discussion and performance of the twentieth- and twenty-firts century piano music, including the performance my new piano work, Concealments, a collaboration with the artist, Haley Nagy. The event will take place on January 31 at 4 pm at Family Pianos in Waukegen.

Program

• Clair de lune, from “Suite bergamasque”, Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
• Wood Lark, from “The Catalog of Birds”, Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
• Cathedral Waterfall-Homage to Olivier Messiaen, Augusta Read Thomas (b. 1964)
• A Gate Into The Stars, Somei Satoh (b. 1947)
• For Alina, Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)
• In a Landscape, John Cage (1912-1992)
• The Messenger, Valentin Silvestrov (b. 1937)
• Concealments, Zvonimir Nagy (b. 1978)