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May 22, 2010; Concert: 4:00, Pre-Concert Talk: 3:15, The Piano Heritage Series
Parish Center for the Arts, 10 Lincoln Street, Westford, MA 01886
Call 978.692.6333 for tickets
The program included music by Benda, Brahms, Schubert, Chopin (solos)
and the following LCAPP selections:
Crossover Soundings (1998) by Chuck Holdeman**
Umbrian Suite (1999) by Elizabeth Vercoe**
Romp (2000) by Edmund Jolliffe
“Oropéndolas” Theme and Variations Op. 275 (2006) by Ana I. Vargas Dengo
Part of the Pre-Concert talk included 'rehearsing' Chuck Holdeman's Crossover Soundings with the audience. The participants will be invited to perform it with us during the concert.
**We were thrilled that Chuck Holdeman and Elizabeth Vercoe were able to attend this performance and talk about their works during the pre-concert talk!**

March 4, 2010; 7:30: "Music on the Merrimack" University of Massachusetts Lowell, Durgin Hall:
35 Wilder St., Lowell, MA
The program included the following LCAPP selections:
Umbrian Suite (1999) by Elizabeth Vercoe**
Romp (2000) by Edmund Jolliffe
“Oropéndolas” Theme and Variations Op. 275 (2006) by Ana I. Vargas Dengo
The program also included music by Benda, Brahms, Schubert, Chopin (solos) and Lutoslawski (2 pianos).
**We were very fortunate that Elizabeth Vercoe was able to attend this performance!

August-September 2009 Performances featured LCAPP selections by the following composers:
Chuck Holdeman: Crossover Soundings (1999)
Mike Nock: Southern Suite (2008)
Elizabeth Vercoe**: Umbrian Suite (1999)

May and June 2009 Performances featured LCAPP selections by the following composers:
Chuck Holdeman: Crossover Soundings (1999)
Edmund Jolliffe: Pagan Dance No. 3 (2000)
Gary Noland: Andante in F Minor Op. 46 (2002)
Edson Zampronha: Composition for Piano Four Hands (1885), Comment I (2005)

March 2009 Performances featured LCAPP selections by the following composers
Graham Howard: Short Piece No. 1 (2003)
Chuck Holdeman: Crossover Soundings (1999)
Edmund Jolliffe: Pagan Dance (2000)
Gary Noland: Andante in F minor (2002)
Ana I. Vargas Dengo: “Oropéndolas” Theme and Variations Op. 275 (2006)

December 2008 through February 2009 Performances featured LCAPP selections by the following composers
Graham Howard:
Short Piece No. 1 (2003)
Edmund Jolliffe:
Pagan Dance (2000)
Gary Noland:
Andante in F minor (2002)
Ana I. Vargas Dengo:
“Oropéndolas” Theme and Variations Op. 275 (2006)

The Four-Hand Piano Duo, pianists Bonnie Anderson and Donna Gross Javel, performed at the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, MA on October 5, 2008 4:00. Australian composer, Graham Howard, was in attendance; other featured LCAPP composers on the program were: Beth Anderson, Ana I. Vargas Dengo, Donna Gross Javel, Edmund Joliffe, Charles Smith, and Edson Zampronha.more info

The Four-Hand Piano Duo, pianists Bonnie Anderson and Donna Gross Javel, performed the world premiere of Edmund Jolliffe's Romp on March 6, 2008 at Orchard Cove in Canton, MA, USA. .

Performances: past and future performances are listed in the EVENTS section of this web site.

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