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Lucktenberg to perform with violinist granddaughter
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Renowned fortepianist to hold workshop, performance in Smith Recital Hall
GREENVILLE, SC - Dr. George Lucktenberg, distinguished fortepianist and keyboard aficionado, will share his experience with music students and perform with his granddaughter, a senior violinist at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities, during an upcoming two-day visit to the school.
Dr. Lucktenberg will hold a guest artist workshop on Saturday, April 10 at 10:30 am in Smith Recital Hall. On Sunday, April 11 at 3 pm, he will perform a fortepiano recital on one of the instruments from his collection of historic keyboards, also in Smith Recital Hall. Both events are free and open to the public.
His visit is part of the 2010 Surdna Guest Artist Series, sponsored by a grant from the Surdna Foundation.
Dr. Lucktenberg's recital will include works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Dussek, composers who would have had the fortepiano in mind for their keyboard compositions. A final piece will feature three generations of Lucktenbergs performing Haydn's Piano Trio in G Major (the famous "Gypsy" trio), with son Ted on cello and granddaughter, Hope, on violin.
Hope Lucktenberg has been at work on the Haydn piece throughout the school year, performing it for her senior recital. "It's been my senior year piece," said Hope, who previously attended Spartanburg High School. "It's a challenging piece, but it's also a very rewarding experience. Performing it with my family is a great way for me to wrap up the year."
Hope Lucktenberg said she has enjoyed practicing with her grandfather and father, and discussing the piece with them as she would with her peers at the Governor's School.
"He knows what he wants out of the music," she said of her grandfather. "It's been enriching. I'm excited about the performance."
Dr. Lucktenberg taught at Converse College for 30 years and founded the South Carolina Music Teachers Association. He has earned praise nationally for his performances, with The New York Times noting that "Mr. Lucktenberg performed throughout with gusto, combining emotional involvement with a strong sense of rhetorical direction."
He is currently a music faculty member at Georgia Southern University in Atlanta and is artist-in-residence at Reinhardt College in Waleska, Ga.
Dr. Lucktenberg developed programs for historical keyboard studies at every level, including a unique harpsichord training program for high school students at the famed Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan. He also taught piano and piano literature there for 50 summers.
He was a founding president of the Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society. He directed the International Aliénor Harpsichord Composition Awards from their 1980 inception until 2001, supervising their quadrennial Conclave-Festivals.
"We are indeed fortunate that we will have Dr. George Lucktenberg on our campus as a Surdna Guest Artist," said Dr. Stephen Taylor, piano instructor at the Governor's School. "It will be an amazing opportunity for our students and for community members to hear classical works played on the type of instrument composers had in mind when writing them."
As a Fulbright Scholar in Vienna, Dr. Lucktenberg's studies in Western Europe led to a book, Early Keyboard Instruments in European Museums, co-authored by Edward Kottick and published by Indiana University Press. He has edited pedagogical anthologies of masterworks for Alfred and Belwin (now Warner Bros.).
For Lucktenberg's complete biography, visit http://www.music.gsu.edu/directory.aspx?Id=156.
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