Local pianists return for duo concert
Pianists Christine Archer-Lockwood and Guy Donaldson return on Sunday for another duo concert.
Archer-Lockwood’s professional life has been as a music therapist, a chamber musician, an accompanist, teacher of piano, music director, and conductor of choirs and orchestras.
She was born and educated in Palmerston North, and returned in 2017 after spending many years overseas. In 2019, she became music director of Palmerston North’s Renaissance Singers. She also runs a weekly singing group for people with respiratory conditions (SYLO — Sing Your Lungs Out).
Donaldson received his formative piano instruction from Maurice Collier, and then at Canterbury University with Maurice Till.
He is active in Manawatu¯ as a teacher, adjudicator, piano soloist, accompanist, chamber music player and music coach.
Performing on two pianos, the pair will present a programme that includes familiar and well-loved pieces. They open with Bach’s own arrangement for two keyboards of the first movement of his concerto for two violins and orchestra — one of his most popular works.
By way of contrast the pianists then launch into a short, fiery piece from New Zealand composer Edwin Carr’s suite The Four Elements.
Brahms’ two-piano version of his
Variations on Haydn’s St Anthony Chorale is also being played.
Shostakovich’s exciting concertino for two pianos is also played, as are some of the bestknown tunes from Gershwin’s opera
Porgy and Bess, arranged for two piano by Australia’s Percy Grainger.
Grainger visited and performed in Palmerston North in the early years of the 20th century.
Globe Sunday Matinee Concert Sunday, 2.30pm Tickets: Koha, recommended from $5