HOUSE CONCERT: CLASSICAL PIANO
Greg McCallum – playing in Saxapahaw!
Sunday, Feb. 8, 2-4 p.m.
“Internationally renowned pianist Greg McCallum will perform works by Beethoven, Chopin, and Ravel’s monumental work, Gaspard de la Nuit”
(Please see Greg’s bio at the end of this invitation)
Tickets are $15 each. Proceeds benefit the scholarship fund of Burlington/Alamance Sister Cities and will provide partial financial aid to English tutors traveling to our sister city of Soledad de Graciano Sanchez, MX.
Email Dianne Ford (dford@elon.edu) to reserve tickets; seating is limited and reservations are required. You may pay at the door. Directions will be emailed to you – we look forward to having you in our home and enjoying this wonderful music! Dianne Ford and Neal Jones – 5645 Jewell Rd, Graham, NC 27253 (336-376-8948)
Pianist Greg McCallum has performed across the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe and Asia in some of the world’s most prestigious concert halls including the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., Preston Bradley Hall in Chicago, New York’s Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London. A versatile musician, McCallum plays a wide range of repertoire from Bach to Brubeck, and has been praised by critics for his “deeply felt, sensitive playing” (Die Main Post, Germany) and “consummate technical and artistic skill” (The Spectator, Raleigh, NC).
McCallum received music degrees from the University of Maryland at College Park, the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and the Hochschule für Musik in Würzburg, Germany. He frequently performs for radio and television, and records for the MSR Classics label. Currently McCallum is working on an international recording project that includes residencies abroad and documents cultural and musical evolution through the piano and its diverse repertoire. His next release in this series, Voyage à Paris, explores the development of French piano music around the turn of the twentieth century and includes works by Franck, Fauré, Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc and Messiaen.
McCallum’s first release in this series, Southern Quilt, documented his own American heritage and was praised by Fanfare Magazine as “an imaginative recital…McCallum makes strong claims for the music, showing himself to be equally adept in the sweet lushness of the Still and in the mechanistic drive of the Rzewski.” For the 2007-08 concert season, McCallum’s schedule included performances in North Carolina, New York, Paris, Hong Kong, and at the Banff Centre in Canada, where he was an artist in residence. In 2008, McCallum served as an adjudicator for the 60th Hong Kong Schools Music Festival and the Great Melody School of Music Competition in Hong Kong, where he also gave master classes.
A dedicated teacher, McCallum maintains a private studio of advanced students who have won honors in regional and international piano competitions. For more information, please visit his website, www.gregmccallum.com .