ArtsFarmington to present Keyboard Festival
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Rebecca Pechefsky
April 10: Harpsichord, Rebecca Pechefsky, affiliated with Brooklyn Baro- que.
April 17: Fortepiano, David Kim, Associate Professor of Music at Whitman College.
April 24: Pianoforte, George Lopez, Beckwith Artist-in-Residence at Bowdoin College.
Pechefsky will present a lecture-recital on five different harpsichords which are reproductions of harpsichords from the 16th through the 18th centuries. She will discuss the different instruments and play several pieces by different composers of the period.
The program will include pieces by J.S. Bach, François Couperin, Girolamo Frescobaldi, and William Byrd, as well as several other composers, some of whom are rarely heard today, such as Christophe Moyreau of Orléans.