TGIF, Jun 27, 5:30pm
Begin your weekend with the lively music by Greg Weger, cello, and Sergio Rodriquez, piano, as they play Debussy, Rachmaninoff, and Piazzolla at our Friday evening concert. Sanctuary doors open at 5:15 pm and the concert begins at 5:30. The concert is free with donations accepted.
Program
Sonata for cello and piano, Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Lent – sostenuto e molto risoluto
Sérénade – modérément animé
Finale – animé – léger et nerveux
Andante from Sonata for cello and piano, Op. 19, Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Grand Tango for cello and piano, Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
The Artists
Gregory Weger began his musical studies on the piano with his grandmother at the age of four and found his calling playing cello at 8 years old. He grew up in a house of musicians; his mother played in the first violin section and his father Principal Trumpet, both in the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. Greg was Principal Cello of the Fort Worth Youth Orchestra and Principal Cello of the New Conservatory of Dallas, led by his mentor, Arkady Fomin. He continued his cello education with Richard Hirschl at the Chicago College of Performing Arts and Bion Tsang at The University of Texas. Greg was Assistant Principal of the Amarillo Symphony from 2015-2019. He now lives in Santa Fe, where he often performs with the Santa Fe Symphony, as well as solo and chamber music concerts.
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 the San Francisco Ballet in San Francisco, California, and 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 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.