MUSIC AT NOON: Paul Kueter & Carolle-Ann Mochernuk, Pianists
Music At Noon, the concert series sponsored by Music At Morristown United Methodist Church, continues its 32nd season with a concert on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012, featuring Paul Kueter and Carolle-Ann Mochernuk, Pianists.
The 30-minute concert, which begins at 12:15 pm, will feature both pianists at the same piano (piano four-hands) and is entitled “Bach to Broadway: Music for Piano Four-Hands from the Baroque to American Musical Theater.” Some of the featured numbers will be the Allegro from Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 by Bach and a suite of songs by Cole Porter as well as a suite from Porgy and Bess.
The concert will be held in the sanctuary of the Morristown United Methodist Church, 50 Park Place(on the Green). There is a light luncheon available for purchase before or after the concert (11:30 to 1:30 pm). The cost of the luncheon is $7.00 for adults and $6.00 for seniors and students. There is a suggested donation for the concert of $6 for adults and $5 for seniors. Students with ID are admitted free. There is free childcare provided during the concerts.
Paul Kueter has performed as ensemble pianist in Carnegie, Town, Weill and Merkin halls in New York, and has played concertos with a number of orchestras through the northwestern United Sates. He holds degrees from the Chicago Musical College, where he studied piano with the noted pianist/composer/conductor Rudolph Ganz, and from the University of Michigan and Columbia University, where he studied with Mozart specialist Thomas Richner. A former faculty member of Rutgers University, he has composed film and ballet scores, songs and piano pieces and has arranged extensively for piano four-hands.
Carolle-Ann Mochernuk, a native of Canada, is a graduate of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. During her teenage years she was a featured piano soloist with CBC radio, playing concertos with such noted conductors as Dr. Boyd Neal.
Later she studied in New York with the renowned Rosina Lhevinne at the Juilliard School and with master-teacher George Kochevitsky. She made her debut in New York’s Town Hall, subsequently concertizing in Canada, theUnited States and Europe, where she played in London’s Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the major music centers.
In addition to frequent concertizing, she taught at Rutgers University and Kean University in New Jersey for several years. Her solo CDs are “The Russian Romantics” featuring the music of Scriabin, Rachmanioff, Prokofiev and others and one of French composers Debussy, Ravel, Faure and Poulenc.
Since the formation of their musical partnership in 1986, Mochernuk and Kueter have concertized in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Their repertoire ranges from the classics to contemporary to Mr. Kueter’s four-hand arrangement of American musical theater.
They have played five recitals at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center and regularly perform in colleges, libraries, and art museums through the US. They have made two CDs called “Five Broadway Greats,” consisting of Mr. Keueter’s arrangements of the music of Kern, Gershwin, Porter, Bernstein and Loewe, and “Gershwiniana,” a centennial celebration featuring Rhapsody in Blue, the concerto, and selections from “Porgy and Bess.”
In September 2077 they were among five pairs of pianists selected to appear in the Concours Grieg International Competition for piano four-hands in Oslo, Norway.
Funding has been made possible in part by funds from the Arts Council of the Morris Area through the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.
For further information: 973-538-2132 or www.morristownumc.com.
