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Wednesday, Apr. 6, 2005 | ||
What do you think of this story? | Piano recital tonightClayton States Music Department will hold one of its Guest Artist Series concerts at Spivey Hall today at 7:30 p.m. Pianist Dr. Michiko Otaki, Clayton State associate professor of Music, will be featured in an all-Mozart concert of chamber music with the Gideon String Trio and Canadian oboist Philippe Magnan. The performance is part of the debut American tour by the Trio, which comes from Brno, the capital of the Moravian section of the Czech Republic. The program includes Mozart's Divertimento in E-flat, K. 563, the Oboe Quartet in F, K. 370, and, with Professor Otaki (Clayton State's Director of Keyboard Activities), the Quartet for Piano and Strings in G minor, K. 478. The concert is free and open to public. Otaki has been critically acclaimed throughout the U.S. and abroad for her performances of Mozart's music, both with orchestras and in chamber music, and has recorded four piano concerti by Mozart. The G minor piano quartet is one of Mozart's most dramatic and expressive mature works; the composer often used the key of g minor for his most intensely personal and emotional compositions. The Gideon String Trio is named for the composer Gideon Klein (1919-1945), a Czech Jew who was one of the most active and talented artists imprisoned at the Terezín concentration camp; he was killed at another camp in Fürstengrube just a few weeks before the liberation of the camps. Klein's 1944 String Trio, his last composition, was released on the Trio's recent CD recording on the Gnosis Brno label, which also features works of Haydn, Schubert, and the contemporary Czech composer Jiri Matys. Members of the Trio are violinist Pavel Wallinger, violist Karel Plocek, and cellist Jan Skrdlík. About the upcoming Spivey Hall concert, Skrdlík said, "I have had many possibilities of working with Michiko when she played Mozart. Most recently last summer at the Moravian Janácek Festival. Her music is a breath of fresh air, an uplifting experience uplifting the listener. I find it a privilege to work with her once again on Apr. 6." For further information please call (770) 961-3627. | |
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