Nov. 11 Fortepiano Performance at the Ships of the Sea Museum, Savannah, Georgia
I will be bringing a fortepiano for the annual Museum in the Moonlight, 7-9 pm, on November 11th at the beautiful Ships of the Sea Museum in Savannah, Georgia’s historic district. Come enjoy early 19th century American, British and European fortepiano music while strolling the music and garden at this annual free event!
for more information: Ships of the Sea Museum calendar of events
PTG Workshop October 8th, 2011, Savannah, Georgia
On Saturday, October 8th, I hosted an all day workshop for members of the Savannah-Charleston chapters of the Piano Technicians Guild. Members were able to up close study and discuss a circa 1800 Broadwood square, harpsichord stringing issues, making hitchpin loops and stringing using hole-less tuning pins, and studied a late 19th century Chickering upright piano action.
For more information about the PTG, see: PTG
Boston Early Music Festival Exhibition June 15-18, 2011
I’ll be holding down the fort with Carey Beebe, discussing TPW kits showing instruments and kits from The Paris Workshop at the Boston Early Music Festival Exhibition at the Radisson hotel in downtown Boston from June 15-18.
Come see a stage 1 kit as it comes, and a completed French single!
For more information see: www.bemf.org andThe Paris Workshop
June 4, 2011, The Goliards at the Ships of the Sea Museum
We’ll be doing a “Best of Goliards” concert for a free concert with refreshments in the beautiful garden at the Ships of the Sea Museum in downtown Savannah. Singers Cuffy Sullivan and Jonathan Brazel, John Hillenbrand on vielle and violin, Jonathan Brazel on recorders, and myself on symphonie and my English Bentside Spinet harpsichord. Yes, I’ve managed to get the Goliards to venture into “modern” music, dragging them into the 17th century! Also, yes, I’m breaking my rule about not taking a harpsichord to an outdoor performance.
7:30 p.m. The Ships of the Sea Museum, 41 Martin Luther King Blvd., Savannah, GA
For more information see: www.shipsofthesea.org
May 14, 2011 Lecture and Performance at SEHKS Conference
At the South Eastern Historical Keyboard Society Conference, this year in Macon, Georgia, I will be giving a lecture on “An Introduction to the English Square Piano”, and that night performing a Philadelphia Sonata by Reinagle and Dussek’s, The Sufferings of the Queen of France on an 1805 Tomkison square piano I restored in 2010 on a program with other performers.
For more information see www.sehks.org
May 2011 Publication in the PTG Journal “Importing and Exporting Pianos”
An article on the issues and solutions for import and export of instruments with ivory keys.
“Importing and Exporting Pianos: or When is a Piano Like an Elephant”
Piano Technicians Journal May 2011 Vol. 54 No. 5
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May 1, 2011 Spring Concert with Savannah Children’s Choir
The Savannah Children’s Choir final concert of an amazing season! Myself at the piano.
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Savannah, Georgia
4 p.m. May 1, 2011
for more information see Savannah Children’s Choir
April 30, 2011 The Goliards present Raimbaut the Troubadour
An amazing dramatic performance of the life story of Raimbaut de Vaquieras, 8 p.m.
with readings from the Vidas and Razos (contemporaneous accounts of the lives of the troubadours) and songs written by Raimbaut and several of his contemporaries. Singers and narrators Ashley Adams, Cuffy Sullivan and Jonathan Brazel, John Hillenbrand vielle and rebec, Jonathan Brazel recorders, Anne Acker organ and symphonie.
8 p.m. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Savannah, GA
for more information see savannahgoliards.com
March 22, 2011 Savannah Children’s Choir Gala Concert with Keith Miller and Rachel Waiters
The Savannah Children’s Choir’s most amazing concert ever. We end with the premier of a new work by composer Eric Jones based on The Songs of Creation poem by James Weldon Johnson with orchestra, piano, choir and our guest artists baritone Keith Miller, mezzo-soprano Rachel Waiters, and tenor Darian Cloonts. The first half features performances by the Savannah Arts Academy choir, and the Savannah Children’s Choir alone and with our guest artists, as well as solo performances by our guest artists. Yours truly here at the piano.
7 p.m. at the Lucas Theatre, Savannah, Georgia
For more information see www.savannahchoir.org
February 2011 Publication in the PTG Journal: “Was this Piano Restored?”
An article on the complications of restoring antique pianos in a world where many technicians do not understand conservation methods.
“Was this Piano Restored: A True Life Adventure”
Piano Technicians Journal February 2011 issue Vol. 54 No. 2