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LEWISTON — Concert pianists Igor Lovchinsky and Matthew Graybil will perform at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 1, at the Gendron Franco Center, 46 Cedar St.
The program, the third in the center’s 12th piano series season, will feature two-piano pieces by Maurice Ravel, Anton Arensky and Darius Milhaud, as well as solo works by Chopin, Stravinsky, Bach/Buson, and an Earl Wild Concert Etude on a “Theme of Gershwin.”
Patrons of the center’s piano series may remember the pair from their 2015 performance that included the New England première of the “Concerto for Two Pianos Solis” by Maine native Walter Piston. This season, they will present the original piano four-hands version of Ravel’s “Mother Goose Suite,” later orchestrated and revised as a ballet. They will also perform the waltz from “Suite for Two Pianos, Op. 15,” by Anton Arensky and Darius Milhaud’s original two-piano version of “Scaramouche.”
Lovchinsky and Graybil met as undergraduates at the Juilliard School, where they were students of Jerome Lowenthal. While their graduate studies took them to different cities, they stayed in touch and continued their collaboration as performers of two-piano compositions.
Lovchinsky showed extraordinary promise by the age of 4, when he was giving recitals for family and friends in his native city of Kazan, Russia. A native of Pennsylvania, Graybil stands out among the new generation of American classical pianists and has been praised as “hypnotic and compelling.”
The preconcert social hour begins when the doors open at 6 p.m.
The Dolard and Priscilla Gendron Franco Center is handicapped accessible. Parking is included in the price of the ticket.
All proceeds will benefit the Franco Center. Call 207-783-1585, visit the box office or go to FranoCenter.org for more information. Box office hours are noon to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, and two hours before every show.
