Please join us for an evening concert\, presented by West Claremont Center for Mus ic and the Arts.\n
Tickets by Donation. Students FREE.
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Since joining forces as a professional duo in 2009\ , internationally acclaimed solo pianists Eva-Maria Zimmermann and Keisuke Nakagoshi — ZOFO — have electrified audiences from Carnegie Hall to Tokyo with their dazzling artistry and outside-the-box thematic programming for one-piano-four-hands. This Grammy-nominated\, prize-winning Steinway Arti st Ensemble — one of only a handful of duos worldwide devoted exclusively to piano duets — is blazing a bold new path for piano four hands groups by focusing on 20th and 21st century repertoire and by commissioning new wor ks from noted composers each year.
\nZOFO\, which is shorthand for 2 0-finger orchestra (ZO=20 and FO=finger orchestra)\, also performs heart-p umping duet arrangements of famous orchestral pieces such as Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring\, exploring the realms in which many composers first experi enced their symphonic visions. ZOFO believes that the piano duet is the mo st intimate form of chamber music\, with two musicians playing individual parts on one instrument in a complex\, often beautiful choreography of fou r hands.
\nZOFO’s concert programs often incorporate a unifying them e that connects the works both musically and historically. Several of thes e thematic programs have been released worldwide as critically acclaimed c ommercial CDs under their multi-disc recording contract with Grammy Award- winning label Sono Luminus Records. Their 2013 debut CD Mind Meld was nomi nated for two Grammy Awards for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performa nce and Producer of the Year.
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