TGIF, Apr 19, 5:30pm

Begin your weekend this Friday with the Poetic Piano Playlist played by Sergio Rodriquez at our TGIF concert. Doors to the sanctuary open at 5:15pm and the concert begins at 5:30pm. The concert is free with donations accepted.

Poetic Piano Playlist

Prelude in D Major, Chad Lawson (b1975-)

Prelude in D Minor, Op. 1, no. 2, Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)

Cortege, Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)

Nocturne in C# Minor, Op. 27, No. 1, Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)

Morgen, Op.27, No. 4, Richard Strauss, arr. Max Reger (1864-1949)

Portrait of Bud Powell, Marian McPartland (1918-2013)

Opening Piece from “Glassworks,” Philip Glass (b.1937-)

Nocturne No. 1 in C Major, Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

Sinfonia, BWV 156, J.S. Bach, arr. Friedrich Zehm (1685-1750)

Postludium, Op. 13, No. 10, Ernst von Dohnanyi (1877-1960)

Sergio Rodriquez

Sergio Rodriguez has performed solo piano and collaborative concerts in Southern California and throughout Northern New Mexico.  He has been orchestra pianist with the Santa Fe Symphony and Santa Fe’s Musica de Camara Orchestra, soloist for the Santa Fe Symphony Club Musicale and Beethoven “Sonatathon.”  He has performed solo and chamber music for the Soundscapes Music Series in Taos, New Mexico, Movable Music Series in Las Vegas, New Mexico, concerts with The Santa Fe Desert Chorale, and at Fuller Lodge in Los Alamos.

Sergio served as pianist for San Francisco Ballet in San Francisco, California, and also for the Stadttheater Bern Ballet in Bern, Switzerland.  Also, short-term collaborations with the Aspen-Santa Fe Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Mark Morris Dance Group, Alonzo King Lines Ballet and the Suzanne Farrell Ballet.  He has served as host-commentator for the Santa Fe concert series “20th Century Unlimited” and has been guest recitalist/lecturer at the New Mexico State Convention of the Professional Music Teachers of New Mexico, giving a recital of the piano music from Cuba.

Sergio was born in Havana, Cuba and grew up in Miami, Florida.  He obtained degrees in piano performance from Florida State University (BM) and UCLA (MFA), with additional studies at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the Aspen Music School in Colorado.  He maintains a private piano studio and has been on the faculties of Santa Fe Community College, New Mexico School for the Arts and Northern New Mexico College.