LEWISTON – Frank Glazer, a resident artist at Bates College since 1980 and a well-known Maine pianist, will be joined by his former student Duncan Cumming for an all-Mozart program today at Bates College. They will play at 8 p.m. in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.
Cumming, a Presque Isle native and 1993 Bates graduate, will perform Mozart’s Sonata in D major. Glazer will play the Fantasie in C minor and the Sonata in C minor. Together, they will perform the D-major Sonata for Two Pianos.
Cumming, who teaches at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., performs internationally as a solo pianist and a member of the Cecilia Trio. He has been a frequent guest on Maine Public Radio’s “Live at 11” program. He began studying with Glazer in his teens and the two have worked together ever since, including their 1997 survey of the Brahms solo piano literature at Bates.
Glazer is an artist of international stature who taught at the Eastman School of Music for 15 years before retiring to Maine with his wife, Ruth, in 1980. The couple founded the Saco River Festival, which is held in Cornish every summer. A student of pianist Artur Schnabel in the 1930s and ’40s, Glazer is one of the few remaining proteges of that great musician.
Glazer’s career includes numerous recordings, his own television program in the 1950s and countless solo recitals and performances with orchestras and chamber ensembles, including the New England Piano Quartette, of which he was a founder.
The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call (207) 786-6135.
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