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Meetings
May 12, 2022
9:30 AM
Meeting and Luncheon White Eagle Golf Club
Claire Aebersold and Ralph Neiweem
Described as “consummate practitioners of pianism” (The Washington Post)
Claire Aebersold and Ralph Neiweem enjoy an international career as
performers of music for both piano duet and two keyboards. The duo has
been heard on RAI-TV Italy, PBS television, and on WFMT Radio in
Chicago, where they performed an unprecedented series thirty live
broadcast concerts covering virtually the complete four-hand repertoire
of the 19th and 20th centuries. Aebersold and Neiweem have appeared with
orchestras internationally, including the Chicago Philharmonic and the
Vienna Tonkünstler. They have been heard in recital in many cities
throughout the USA and Europe, including Chicago, New York, Detroit,
Washington, D.C., Santa Fe, Vienna, Rome, Florence and Odessa, Ukraine.
Performances in New York include a 25th anniversary celebration concert
at Merkin Hall.
The duo has commissioned significant new works
for the piano duo, including Joseph Turrin’s “Symmetries” for Two
Pianos; “Great Movements” Sonata for piano, four hands by Patrick Byers;
and “Cries and Whispers” by Robert Chumbley. Aebersold and Neiweem’s
many CDs on the Summit label include a complete traversal of Schubert’s
four-hand music, praised by Gramophone Magazine as “utterly
charming...warmly recommended.”
In 2020 Aebersold and Neiweem
were awarded the 1st Josef and Rosina Levinne Legacy prize for their
achievements both in Piano Duo performance and teaching. They were also
the first recipients of the Colburn award for excellence in teaching at
the Music Institute of Chicago.
Claire Aebersold is a native of
Oak Ridge, Tennessee and is a graduate of the New England Conservatory.
Ralph Neiweem hails from Evanston, Illinois and is a graduate of the
Juilliard School. Both completed graduate studies at Northwestern
University. They are currently Artists-in-Residence at the Music
Institute of Chicago, where they are directors of the annual Chicago Duo
Piano Festival.
The program will feature both of Liszt's Two
Episodes from Lenau's Faust and the rarely heard "Der Nächtliche Zug"
(Procession by Night) which precedes the famous Mephisto Waltz No. 1.
Rounding out the program is Schubert's Grand Rondo in A Major, D. 951,
and the Rapsodie Espagnole of Ravel.
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NAPERVILLE MUSIC TEACHERS ASSN.
2021-2022 SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS
All on Thursdays beginning at 9:30 a.m.
September 9
Joseph Cisar “Key Elements of Teaching Jazz Piano” October 14
Sylvia Wang “Balancing Choice and Knowledge With Methodology In The Teaching Of
Bach” November 11
Owen Zhou “Recording Techniques” January 13
February 10
Svetlana Belsky “Into Darkness: Music written between 1910-1920.”
March 10
Christina Tio “Strategies for Ear Training” April 14
Susan Tang “Exploring Music of Black American Composers” May 12
Ralph Neiween and Claire Aebersold
FOR OTHER NMTA EVENTS, DEADLINES, etc. - Please see the 2021-22
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