LEWISTON — Pianist Frank Glazer and violist Scott Woolweaver, once colleagues in the New England Piano Quartette, will join forces again for a concert at Bates College on Friday, April 27.
They will perform Brahms’ Sonatas for Viola and Piano Op. 120, Nos. 1 and 2; Schumann’s “Marchenbilder; and Herzogenberg’s “Legends,” Op. 62.
The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. at Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. Admission is free, but tickets are required. Call 786-6135 or visit [email protected].
For more than 25 years, into the 2000s, Glazer and Woolweaver made music together in the New England Piano Quartette, along with cellist George Sopkin and violinist Werner Torkanowsky and later Curtis Macomber. The popular quartet was well repsectedfor its breadth of repertoire, including Torkanowsky’s compositions, and the musicians’ credentials.
Glazer, 97, of Topsham, was recently featured on the American Public Media’s program “The Story.” He has had a distinguished international career that includes numerous recordings, solo recitals and performances with orchestras and chamber ensembles. With his wife, the late Ruth Glazer, he founded the Saco River Music Festival, held for many years in Cornish. He has been an artist-in-residence at Bates since 1980.
Woolweaver is artist associate at Williams College and lecturer in viola and chamber music at Tufts University. He is a regular guest of the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society and is director of the Adult Chamber Music Institute at Kneisel Hall in Blue Hill.
He founded the Boston Composers String Quartet, which won the silver medal at the 1993 String Quartet Competition and Chamber Music Festa in Osaka, Japan. From 1999-2006, he was a member of the Ives Quartet, based in San Francisco.
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