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Lapp and Lehman to perform piano and harpsichord recital March 18
Faculty
Recital Series:
Date and time:
at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Rieth Recital Hall, Goshen College Music
Center
Cost: $7 adults, $5 seniors/students, available at the door one
hour before the recital. GC students are free with valid
ID.
GOSHEN, Ind. – Harpsichordist Bradley Lehman, a 1986 graduate of Goshen College, and Goshen College Associate Professor of Music Beverly Lapp, a pianist, will present a recital of Baroque and early Classical keyboard music on at 7:30 p.m. in the Music Center's Rieth Recital Hall.
The concert repertoire will include works by J.S. Bach and his sons C.P.E. Bach and W.F. Bach, as well as Christoph Graupner, Marianna D'Auenbrugger, Haydn and Mozart. Both instruments will be tuned using the keyboard temperament discovered by Lehman and believed to have been Johann Sebastian Bach's own preference for the Well-Tempered Clavier. Details of this unique tuning are published in Early Music (Oxford University Press, 2005) and available through www.larips.com.
Lehman did his graduate work in music at the University of Michigan. There he earned master's degrees in early keyboard instruments and musicology, and a doctorate in harpsichord. His teachers included Edward Parmentier, Penelope Crawford and James Kibbie. He has worked closely with Baroque specialists Enid Sutherland, Jaap Schroeder, David Sariti, and with singer Norma Gentile and trumpeter Martin Hodel. Lehman's repertoire spans most of the solo keyboard literature from 1500 to 1775, plus Renaissance and Baroque ensemble music and some modern works. He is particularly interested in historical styles, unequal temperaments, transcription and directness of expression through musical rhetoric. In addition to his concert work in North America, Germany and Costa Rica, he has served several congregations as organist and music leader. His musical activities include various performances on harpsichord, organ, clavichord, virginal, fortepiano and piano, composition of hymns and keyboard music, continuo work, and collecting and producing recordings.
Lapp teaches applied piano and piano pedagogy at Goshen College and has served as director of international study terms in Peru and the Dominican Republic. She is a member of the internships/practica committee for the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy. She regularly gives workshops and presentations for area piano teachers groups and presented a paper on models for music departments at liberal arts colleges at the College Music Society national conference in September 2010. She is co-coordinator of the Piano Workshop and Academy, a four-day summer event for piano teachers and high school students. Lapp holds a master's degree in piano performance and pedagogy from Westminster Choir College of Rider University and is currently a candidate for the Ed.D. at Columbia University's Teacher's College where she is researching the study of music by the generalist student.
Tickets are $7 adults, $5 seniors/students, available at the door one hour before the concert. GC students are free with ID.
Editors: For more information about this release, to arrange an interview or request a photo, contact Goshen College News Bureau Director Jodi H. Beyeler at (574) 535-7572 or jodihb@goshen.edu.
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