Music Matters: Brahms & Dvořák for Two
Saturday, November 12 at 5pm
Julia Bady & Andrew King
piano four-hands & two pianos
1886 Chickering concert grand
& 1930 Mason & Hamlin parlor grand
Brahms & Dvořák for Two
Johannes Brahms Liebesliederwalzer, Op. 52 (two pianos)
Antonín Dvořák Legends, Op. 59 (piano four-hands)
Brahms Var. on Haydn's St. Anthony Chorale, Op. 56b
The great Romantic composers published reams of scores for piano duo and piano duet. 19th-century pianists rushed to the music stores to empty the shelves of each new publication by Dvořák, Brahms, and many others. Back home, they got down to the challenging task of learning the latest waltzes, suites, sonatas, and variations.
Pianists Julia Bady & Andrew King will bring this beautiful and technically demanding Hausmusik to life on both of La Grua's acclaimed pianos, the 1930 Mason & Hamlin parlor grand and the 1886 Chickering concert grand. The hall's transparent acoustic and fine sight lines will enhance a memorable afternoon of chamber music for piano.
The performance lasts about an hour and runs without an intermission.
$20 online tickets available at LaGruaCenter.org. $25 at the door.
All seating is unreserved: first come, first served. Doors open 1/2 hour before the start of the concert.
Julia Bady is a concert pianist and piano teacher based in Greenfield, MA.
Since 1978, Ms. Bady has performed solo and chamber music throughout the New York and New England regions. She earned her BA in Music from Brown University and her Master’s degree in the Creative Arts in Education and Piano Performance from the Longy School of Music and Lesley College. Ms. Bady has participated in Master Classes at the New England Conservatory of Music.
Ms. Bady is a Certified Associate of the Golandsky Piano Institute for the Taubman Approach, based in New York City, and has studied the Taubman Approach for pianists with Mary Moran, Edna Golandsky and Ilya Itin. She has presented workshops and clinics on piano technique and performance at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the Northampton Community Music Center in Massachusetts, the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven, CT, and in her home studio in Greenfield, MA.
Ms. Bady currently teaches from her home studio. She has taught at Northampton Community Music Center, Greenfield (MA) Community College, the Eaglebrook School in Deerfield, MA, the Academy at Charlemont, MA, Artspace Community Arts Center of Greenfield, the All Newton Music School, Groton Center for the Arts, Fontbonne Academy in Milton, MA, and Creative Arts for Kids in Milton, MA.
Ms. Bady performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City as a finalist in the Concert Artist Guild competition. She has enjoyed collaborating with many artists, including Irwin Reese, tenor, Kathleen Shimeta, mezzo-soprano, Judson Griffin, violinist, Loretta O’Sullivan, cellist, and Jamie Goodnow and Andrew King, pianists. She has several self-produced CD’s and has had recordings of her concert performances aired on New England Public Radio and WCRB radio in Boston, MA. Ms. Bady is available for private engagements.
Julia is currently a coach for the Pioneer Valley Symphony Youth Orchestra Chamber Music Program in Greenfield, MA.
Pianist Andrew King is a soloist, chamber musician, and collaborative artist based in Connecticut. Mr. King has performed throughout the Northeast, including to a sold-out hall at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall as soloist and with his colleague, soprano Julie Reumert. He has played in masterclasses for several world-class pianists and pedagogues, including Edna Golandsky, Ilya Itin, Paul Roberts, Yael Weiss, and Robert Wyatt. After winning many local competitions by age 17, Mr. King went on to Bowdoin College to earn his Bachelor of Arts degree in Music. He subsequently completed his master’s degree in piano performance from the Hartt School of Music as the recipient of the William S. Vincent Scholarship. While studying in Vienna, Austria, he and violist Sean Reilly won the first prize in chamber music for the Institute for the International Education of Students (IES) program in 2003, and they performed with musicians from Milan, Italy. Mr. King regularly performs on the St. John’s Summer Music Concert Series in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and with his four-hand duo partner, pianist Julia Bady.
In addition to performing, Mr. King continues to refine his technique as both student and teacher. He is a Certified Instructor of the Taubman Approach, the groundbreaking and transformative approach to piano playing that provides the necessary tools for musical expressiveness through healthy motions at the keyboard. He has studied extensively with Robert Durso, master Taubman teacher and co-founder of the Golandsky Institute, in New York; he was also a student of Gerald Stofsky in Vienna, and Margreet Francis and David Westfall at the Hartt School of Music. After teaching as faculty of the Hartt School Community Division for many years, Mr. King now offers private lessons at his home studio in Connecticut. He is a long-standing member of the Hartford Chapter of the Connecticut State Music Teachers Association, through which his students have frequently placed in local competitions. He also serves as an adjudicator for piano competitions and presents introductory workshops on the Taubman Approach.
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