 | Violinist Janet Packer (left) and pianist Madeleine Forte |
Internationally acclaimed pianist Madeleine Forte and violinist Janet Packer will perform in a recital on Sunday, Jan. 18, at 4 p.m. in Sudler Hall of William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St.
Sponsored by the Department of Music, the event is free and open to the public.
The program includes two sonatas for piano and violin -- one by Robert Schumann and one by Amy Beach, a rondo for piano and violin by Franz Schubert and a piano sonata by Alban Berg.
The French-born Forte studied as a child with Alfred Cortot and Wilhelm Kempff and began a concert career after earning an artist diploma from the Frédéric Chopin Academy in Warsaw. She later studied at the Juilliard School in New York, earning two degrees in piano performance, and obtained a Ph.D. from New York University. In addition to performing as a solo recitalist and as a soloist with orchestras around the world, Forte has made numerous recordings of performances of the music of Ravel, Chopin, Debussy, Messiaen (about whom she wrote the 1996 book "Olivier Messiaen, the Musical Mediator"), and others. One of her recordings of all-Chopin music was made on an 1881 Erard piano in the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments. Forte is a fellow of Silliman College.
Packer has combined a career as a concert violinist and music educator. The chair of the string department at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she is a noted champion of new music for the violin and is a leading performer of the Viennese classical repertoire on authentic instruments. She has been a solo violinist for 10 seasons with Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble and has appeared with the Rochester Philharmonic and Boston Pops, as well as in solo recitals throughout the United States. Packer's recordings include the violin and piano music of Charles-Marie Widor as well as the music of Vittorio Rieti and Gardner Read. She gives frequent master classes at schools around the country.
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