Two harpsichord concert with JooSoo Son, Hilton Head and Savannah performances, late October 2013
Details to be announced. Music to include Bach’s Concerto in C major for two harpsichords, Edwin McLean’s Sonata for Two Harpsichords, and more. First Presbyterian Church, 540 William HIlton Parkway, Hilton Head, SC, and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1802 Abercorn St., Savannah, GA. Details to be announced!
Harpsichords by Anne Acker and William Dowd.
The Goliards: Performance of Sephardic Music, Sunday, September 29, 2013, 3 p.m.
Come to a fantastic program of Medieval Sephardic music in the gothic space of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1802 Abercorn St, Savannah, GA at 3 p.m. I’ll be playing sinfonye and portative organ, along with John Hillenbrand on vielle, Anne Durant on harp, bray harp and miscellaneous percussion, and singers Cuffy Sullivan, Melissa Flumertfelt, and Mary Catherine Mousourakis. This is a concert not to be missed!
No, I wasn’t doing nothing for a year and a half! Senior Editor and contributor for the 2nd Edition of the Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments.
Yes, I played quite a few concerts during this time with The Goliards and The Savannah Childrens Choir, as well as with the Savannah Philharmonic Chamber Music Series, and I gave talks. So why have I not updated this website? For the last several years, I was serving as a Senior Editor and contributor to the 2nd edition of the Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments for Oxford University Press. As you might imagine it took a LOT of time! What a great job it was though. I was in charge of all stringed keyboard instruments, as well as many organs, a few odds and ends, and all the Electronics and many of the Acoustics and other unusual modern creations. We wrapped up in June 2013 and since then I’ve been playing catch up in my workshop. I may or may not get around to putting in the performances and the like from the last couple years as really do need to work on my instrument queue and practice for the next concerts!
Lieder Concert with Baritone Roger Moss, Sunday May 5, 2013 3 p.m.
A performance accompanying the fine baritone Roger Moss on piano at St Paul’s Episcopal Church, Abercorn St., Savannah, GA. Traditional works by Brahms, Strauss, Wagner, and beautiful 20th century works. It is nice to be back playing fine vocal accompaniment and especially with such a fine singer.
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
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 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