Opening
Concert: Spotlight on the Century 1900-2000
Friday Evening, July 9, 8 pm
LeRoi Nickel Piano Duo
Leonard Bernstein’s Arias and Barcarolles with special guests
Alyce Rodgers, mezzo-soprano and Kevin Walsh, baritone
Samuel Barber ballet suite Souvenirs and other works
First
Hearings
Saturday evening, 8 pm
Rebecca Jeffers and Angela Carlson, pianists & moderators
New works for piano duet including a Libby Larsen
premiere and “Whitman Fragments” by Ron Jeffers
Meet
the Composer: Tomas Svoboda
Sunday Afternoon, 2 pm
Celebrated Czech/American composer speaks about his piano duet works including
performances of Suite op. 124, Three Fughettas,
and Intermission for two pianists (premiere)
Northwest
Duo-Invitational Concert
"from Debussy and Poulenc.....to Corigliano and Gershwin"
Sunday Afternoon, 4 pm
featuring regional duet artist teams
Lisa Marsh/Connie Titterington, Margaret Littlehales/Rebecca Schappert-Jones
Jane Boyden/Betty Bell, Delyn Griffin/Margaret Smith, Angela Kelly/Rebecca
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workshops:
Celebrating a Century of Piano Duets
20th Century Repertoire for young pianists (elementary to advanced)
Coaching
and Masterclasses for duet teams
Duet teams are invited to participate.
8:30 am Registration and coffee
9:00 Presentation: Celebrating a Century of Piano Duets
10:00 *Student Recital, Rebecca Jeffers, adjudicator
11:15-12:15 Presentation: 20th Century Repertoire for Young Pianists
1:30 *Masterclass I
Sunday
12:30 pm *Masterclass II
Student Recital
Sat. July 10 at 10 am with a focus on 20th century duet
repertoire.
Student teams are invited to participate.
* For recommended repertoire for masterclass
and student recital contact the LeRoi-Nickel Duo.
e-mail: tnnickel@teleport.com phone: 503-227-5116 website: www.leroinickel.com
St. Peter the Fisherman Lutheran Campus
Corner of SW 13 Street and Highway 101, Lincoln City, Oregon
Timothy and Nancy LeRoi Nickel have devoted three decades to the performance and research of music for one piano-four hands. They have performed twice at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in New York, gave their London debut in 1990 in the Purcell Room and were invited to appear at the South Bohemian Music Festival in the Czech Republic in 1996. The Nickels received the Advanced Certificate at the Guildhall School in London and currently teach at Marylhurst University. In the summer of 2000 they inaugurated the first Piano Duet Festival by the Sea in Lincoln City, Oregon, dedicated to the performance and study of the unique and bountiful repertoire of original music for one piano-four hands. The Arsis label from E. C. Schirmer in Boston (www.arsisaudio.com) has released three CDs of duet music by the Nickels.
Angela Carlson and Rebecca Jeffers are faculty members of the Oregon State University Department of Music and have played piano duets together for 25 years. Ms. Carlson is an opera preview lecturer for the Linn-Benton Opera Guild and a highly regarded vocal accompanist. She studied at the Universities of Idaho and Wisconsin, the Guildhall School of Music in London, and Aspen School of Music. Rebecca Jeffers is well known to audiences throughout the Northwest as a collaborative pianist and chamber musician. She holds degrees from Carleton College and the University of Michigan.
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