Selections from Pieces de Clavecin
Submission Type
Event
Expected Graduation Date
2014
Location
Young Main Lounge, Memorial Center, Illinois Wesleyan University
Start Date
4-12-2014 12:15 PM
End Date
4-12-2014 2:00 PM
Disciplines
Music Performance
Abstract
Soon after I came to Illinois Wesleyan as a Piano Performance major, I discovered a beautiful harpsichord that Minor Myers, Jr. had purchased for the university in 1993. I fell in love with the instrument, and realized that I had been playing the wrong keyboard instrument the whole time. I have now been accepted to a number of prestigious schools for graduate studies in Historical Performance, but as a composer I have also been interested in new music for the harpsichord. Since there was little to no interest at the university in composing for the harpsichord, I composed and arranged 20-30 individual pieces during my four years here specifically idiomatic to the harpsichord (e.g. not playable on the piano, organ, etc.). These works collectively form a group appropriately named after similar collections by French composers of the 17th and 18th centuries – Pieces de Clavecin. You will likely hear two short compositions from this collection at the conference.
Selections from Pieces de Clavecin
Young Main Lounge, Memorial Center, Illinois Wesleyan University
Soon after I came to Illinois Wesleyan as a Piano Performance major, I discovered a beautiful harpsichord that Minor Myers, Jr. had purchased for the university in 1993. I fell in love with the instrument, and realized that I had been playing the wrong keyboard instrument the whole time. I have now been accepted to a number of prestigious schools for graduate studies in Historical Performance, but as a composer I have also been interested in new music for the harpsichord. Since there was little to no interest at the university in composing for the harpsichord, I composed and arranged 20-30 individual pieces during my four years here specifically idiomatic to the harpsichord (e.g. not playable on the piano, organ, etc.). These works collectively form a group appropriately named after similar collections by French composers of the 17th and 18th centuries – Pieces de Clavecin. You will likely hear two short compositions from this collection at the conference.