CONWAY, Ark. (February 21, 2016) – The Hendrix College
Department of Music will host a four-hands piano duo concert by pianists Paolo Alderighi and Stephanie Trick on Tuesday,
March 29, at 7:30 p.m., in Reves Recital Hall at Hendrix.
The performance is free and open to the public, but there will be a
“freewill offering” taken for the guest musicians. For more information on the
program, contact Hendrix music professor Dr. John Krebs at 501-450-1245 or krebs@hendrix.edu.
Alderighi and Trick met at a piano festival in Switzerland
in 2008 and started to work together in 2011 on a four-hands piano project
dedicated to classic jazz, preparing arrangements of songs from the swing era,
as well as drawing from the ragtime and blues repertoire.
- The convention of four hands on
one piano is very common in classical music but a fairly rare occurrence in
jazz, due to the fact that jazz is an improvised music.
- Their latest two albums, Double Trio Live 2015 and Double
Trio Always (2016), present
the classic configuration of the jazz trio – piano, bass, and drums – with
piano in four hands instead of two. This combination gives Alderighi and Trick
the possibility of creating arrangements of songs that include moments in trio
for each pianist (which is why the project is called “Double Trio”), in which
the stylistic differences between the two emerge in their individual
improvisational styles, as well as moments of “tutti,” in which the four-hands
duet is sustained by bass and drums.
For more information on the duo, visit http://www.paoloandstephanie.com.
About
Hendrix College
Hendrix College is a private liberal arts college in Conway,
Arkansas. Founded in 1876 and affiliated with the United Methodist Church since
1884, Hendrix is featured in Colleges
That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think about Colleges and is
nationally recognized in numerous college guides, lists, and rankings for
academic quality, community, innovation, and value. For more information, visit
www.hendrix.edu.