Piano presentation to examine composer Granados and artist Goya March 10

Pianist and researcher Nathan Birkholz of Appleton, Wisconsin, will present “Goyescas: Painting Through Sound” Thursday, March 10, at Ripon College. The program will run from 2-4 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. All are welcome to attend.

This lecture-recital marks an important centenary in the life and work of Spanish pianist and composer, Enrique Granados (1867-1916). Three of the six pieces that comprise his colossal masterpiece for piano, Goyescas: Los majos enamorados (Goyescas: The Majos in Love) will be performed as Birkholz examines the influence of the great Spanish artist from whom this work derives its title, Francisco Goya (1746-1828). He will have slides to accompany the music, as well as commentary.

He has served on the piano faculty of the University of Illinois and Ripon College and is currently a staff pianist at Lawrence University, organist at First English Lutheran Church of Appleton and principal accompanist for the Appleton Boychoir and the Badger State Girl Choir.

Birkholz completed a doctor of musical arts degree at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has won top prizes in competitions across the country, including the 2010 Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, the Kankakee Valley Symphony Orchestra’s Concerto Competition, and Wisconsin’s Neale-Silva Young Artists’ Competition.

He was the only American among 35 contestants worldwide invited to participate in the fourth International Rachmaninov Competition in Moscow, Russia.

Posted March 4, 2016 in Fine Arts, Special Event.

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