Friday, August 31, 2018 — 5:30pm
Music of J.S. Bach and Poulenc

Program:

Concerto in Italian Style by J. S. Bach
Les Soirees de Nazelles by Francis Poulenc

Edwin Light grew up in Copperhill TN where he had his first piano lessons with Dr. Otto Kern at age 5.  In high school he continued his music studies with Oina Mitchell, who encouraged him to attend the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.  At C-CM he completed his Bachelor and Master’s degree programs in piano with Herbert Newman.

While teaching piano at Western Illinois University he began the doctoral program in piano at Boston University.  Near the completion of the Doctor of Musical Arts degree, under the tutelage of Maria Clodes, he elected to stay on in Boston, where he taught at several community music schools and in the Humanities Department at Fitchburg State University.  He coached German Lieder with Harold Heiberg in Vienna and French Melodie with Marguerite Meyerowitz at Juilliard.

Edwin honed his skills over the years as a collaborative pianist: he performed in Thun, Switzerland for three summers with soprano Scharmal Schrock (Indiana University), and with Swiss singers in a workshop of American music.  He toured in the U.S. with violinist Almita Vamos (Northwestern University).

In New Mexico he has performed in the TGIF series in Santa Fe, the Abiquiu Chamber Music Festival and the State Convention of the New Mexico Piano Teachers Association..  Edwin spends his spare time writing a memoir and traveling with his husband Jack Cox and their whippets Jake and Cooper.