Duo Mundi is George Lopez, the Beckwith Artist-in-Residence at Bowdoin College, and internationally acclaimed Chinese-American pianist Gulimina Mahamuti
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FARMINGTON ArtsFarmington invites the public to join them online for Keyboard Festival, a three-performance virtual series, finishing us with the third performance on April 24 at 7:30 p.m. featuring – pianoforte, George Lopez, Beckwith Artist-in-Residence at Bowdoin College. $10 per household for an individual concert, or $25 for the series.
George Lopez has been a dynamic performer and educator for over 25 years. He is known on several continents for his performance of the standard repertoire as well as being a champion of newly written works. He recently premiered a piano concerto composed for him here in Maine and is comfortable in styles of music ranging from jazz and ragtime to more contemporary improvisation. He performs regularly to capacity crowds and conducts the Bowdoin Symphony Orchestra.
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Rebecca Pechefsky
April 10: Harpsichord, Rebecca Pechefsky, affiliated with Brooklyn Baro- que.
April 17: Fortepiano, David Kim, Associate Professor of Music at Whitman College.
April 24: Pianoforte, George Lopez, Beckwith Artist-in-Residence at Bowdoin College.
Pechefsky will present a lecture-recital on five different harpsichords which are reproductions of harpsichords from the 16th through the 18th centuries. She will discuss the different instruments and play several pieces by different composers of the period.
The program will include pieces by J.S. Bach, François Couperin, Girolamo Frescobaldi, and William Byrd, as well as several other composers, some of whom are rarely heard today, such as Christophe Moyreau of Orléans.
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