Peter Serkin & The Espressivo Orchestra - November 8

Pianist Peter Serkin, Grammy award-winner and multiple nominee, will add Santa Cruz’s own Espressivo to the list of orchestras with which he has soloed in the past sixty years, including the major ones on three continents. He will join the ‘’small, intense orchestra” at Peace United Church in Santa Cruz on Thursday evening, November 8th, at 7 pm.

In a program that consists of selections with more than one creator each, Serkin will play Bach’s d-minor keyboard concerto, with augmented orchestral accompaniment based on his original research. A second arrangement by Serkin will feature the wind section of Espressivo playing what was originally one of Mozart’s piano duets.

The orchestra will also play Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Charles Wuorinen’s arrangement of John Bull’s organ composition “Salve Regina,” and Arnold Schoenberg’s reduction for six instruments of Johann Strauss’s “Lagoons” Waltz.

Tickets can be purchased at www.EspressOrch.org, and, as available, at the door.

For further information, call (831) 247-8505