Faculty Artists Recital

The Keene State College Music Department is pleased to present its second faculty recital of 2015, featuring music from the seventeenth century until the present time.

Christopher Swist (percussion) opens the recital with a performance of Roar, a striking work for tam-tam and electronics by the contemporary American composer John Luther Adams. Virginia Eskin (piano) celebrates the centenary anniversary of the birth of the great Russian composer-pianist Alexander Scriabin with performances of several of his concert etudes, as well as a tableau-etude written by another great Russian master, Sergei Rachmaninoff, in honor of Scriabin.

The recital will also feature the world premiere of KSC Emeritus Professor William D. Pardus’s Trio for oboe, bassoon, and percussion, performed by Sussan Henkel (oboe), Joy Flemming (bassoon), and Christopher Swist (percussion). Professor Flemming will also be featured in a performance of Willson Osborne’s Rhapsody for solo bassoon. Diane Cushing (soprano) and Ted Mann (lute) perform a set of songs and solos by Thomas Campion and Thomas Robinson, two masters of the late English Renaissance. The program concludes with Marcia Lehinger (violin) and Virginia Eskin (piano) in a performance of W.A. Mozart’s Sonata in B-flat Major for violin and piano, K. 378.

Please join us for a special evening of great music.