The program for the Jan. 29 Music On Sunday performance features not only the music of Debussy and Beethoven but also a posthumous, comedic and theatrical dialogue over the course of which they move from mutual hatred to mutual understanding and respect.
Canadian pianist Bruce Vogt will be playing at The Old Schoolhouse Arts Centre (122 W. Fern Rd., Qualicum Beach) on Jan. 29 for Music On Sunday. The concert, entitled Beethoven and Debussy: Purgatory Mates, is from 2:30-4:30 p.m. Admission for the concert is $18.
For more information, visit www.theoldschoolhouse.org or call 250-752-6133.
Vogt appears regularly in concert, both as a soloist and as a chamber musician in Canada, England, Germany, France, Italy, Norway, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, China and Japan.
Born in southern Ontario, Vogt completed his initial musical studies with Damjana Bratuz and Anton Kuerti.
Later he studied in the United States, England, Switzerland and Italy, working with a number of celebrated musicians including Gyorgy Sebok, Louis Kentner, Fou Ts’Ong and Dario de Rosa.
Vogt’s repertoire is extremely diverse, encompassing music from the 16th century to the present. He has consistently championed the music of contemporary composers, and has commissioned and premiered a number of new works by such Canadian luminaries as Murray Adaskin and Alfred Fisher.
He is also an enthusiastic and dedicated performer on period instruments; one of his recordings features music of Robert Schumann performed on a restored 1864 Erard.
His other recordings include two volumes of the music of Franz Liszt, which have established for him an enviable reputation as a Liszt interpreter. In 2011 — the bicentenary of the Liszt’s birth — he recorded two subsequent CDs of this great composer’s music.
In addition to his career as a piano soloist, chamber musician and recording artist, Vogt is also a professor at the University of Victoria.
— Submitted by TOSH