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Date(s) - 10/28/2021
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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BUY TICKETS / DONATIONS – Hosts Edwin Outwater and Peaches Christ guide you on a tour of the piano repertoire’s most haunting moments. Proceeds benefit The Ross McKee Foundation.
Join hosts Edwin Outwater (Music Director, San Francisco Conservatory of Music) and Peaches Christ (horror icon and owner of Into the Dark: Terror Vault) for an evening of Devilish Inspirations, a tour of the piano repertoire’s most haunting moments. Featuring new music videos created by Bay Area pianists, the program focuses on works inspired by the devil and other spooky Halloween themes while Edwin and Peaches provide historical context, witty repartee, and a touch of ghoulish glamour.
Given the unprecedented decimation of artists and arts funding around the world during the COVID-19 shutdowns, your contributions are more essential than ever to keep pianists living, working, and performing in the Bay Area. Please consider making a donation of any size to help the Ross McKee Foundation continue the vital work of keeping the Bay Area’s dynamic piano scene alive for years to come.
Very special thanks to our corporate sponsors for this event: Renegade.bio
Program
- Sergei Prokofiev | Devilish Inspirations, Op. 4, No. 4
Solomon Ge – piano - Alexander Scriabin | Piano Sonata No. 9, “Black Mass”, Op. 68
Daniel Glover – piano - Jalacy ‘Screamin’ Jay’ Hawkins | I Put A Spell On You (arranged by Nina Simone)
Dee Spencer – piano - Maurice Ravel | Le gibet from Gaspard de la nuit
Sarah Cahill – piano - Edward MacDowell | Hexantanz (Witches Dance), Op. 17, No. 2
Ryan Sheng – piano - Stephen Montague | Mirabella: a tarantella for toy piano
Allegra Chapman – toy piano - William Albright | A Nightmare Fantasy Rag
Jeffrey LaDeur – piano - Franz Liszt | La Lugubre Gondola
Christopher Basso – piano - Leo Ornstein | Lento from Piano Sonata No. 4
Brent Smith – piano - Maurice Ravel | Scarbo from Gaspard de la nuit
Keisuke Nakagoshi – piano
The Ross McKee Foundation seeks to improve the musical culture of the Bay Area by providing financial assistance to local pianists and the organizations that support them via grants for performances, education, and scholarships.
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