Versatile Northwest musician and visiting professor perform; Friday, Oct. 28, at 7:30 p.m.
TACOMA, Wash. – In the early 19th century, as Ludwig van Beethoven’s hearing loss progressed, leaving him nearly totally deaf in his late 40s, his music became more personal and intimate.
Music critics speculated that the two events were related—that the brilliant German composer’s sense of isolation had turned him inward, where he found his own realm of freedom by expressing his mastery of music in ever more sophisticated and wide-ranging forms.
Michael Seregow, visiting assistant professor at the University of Puget Sound’s School of Music, will share with the public some of what is known as Beethoven’s illustrious “late period” in a Jacobsen Series piano recital.
Beethoven and Beyond, with pianist Michael Seregow, will take place on Friday, Oct. 28, at 7:30 p.m., in Schneebeck Concert Hall. Ticket information and a map of campus are below.
“Beethoven described his Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Major, Opus 101 as a series of impressions and reveries,’” Seregow said. “This work serves as a point of departure for a varied piano music program composed between 1816 and 1903. The program will also include other ‘impressions and reveries’ by Fauré and Debussy, along with Robert Schumann's colossal Symphonic Etudes.”
The evening concert will present:
Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Major, Opus 101, by Ludwig van Beethoven
Estampes, by Claude Debussy
Nocturne No. 6 in D-flat Major, Opus 63, by Gabriel Fauré
Symphonic Etudes, Opus 13, by Robert Schumann
Michael Seregow, a Pacific Northwest native, is a teacher, performer, and scholar. Before joining Puget Sound for the 2016–17 academic year, he taught at the University of Oregon. Seregow has performed as a soloist and collaborative artist throughout the Pacific Northwest, including at the American Liszt Society Festival in Los Angeles, for the American premiere of recent piano works by Guy Sigsworth, and in a performance of Schubert’s Die Winterreise, with baritone Harry Baechtel. He has collaborated with artists such as bassoonist William Ludwig and baritone Richard Zeller and members of the Eugene Symphony and Oregon Mozart Players.
In addition to studies in classical piano, Seregow has formal training in instruments including harpsichord, fortepiano, and organ. He has studied jazz piano, basso continuo, historical performance practice, and composition. He earned a doctoral degree in piano performance from the University of Oregon, where he twice was named Outstanding Graduate Performer in Keyboard. Seregow has won numerous competitions, including the University of Oregon Concerto Competition, the Oregon Music Teachers Association Young Artist Piano Competition, and the Vernon L. Wiscarson competition for young musicians. Seregow serves as a lecturer and adjudicator throughout the Pacific Northwest. His students have been prizewinners in local and national competitions.
The Jacobsen Series, named in honor of Leonard Jacobsen, former chair of the piano department at Puget Sound, has been running since 1984. The Jacobsen Series Scholarship Fund awards annual music scholarships to outstanding student performers and scholars. The fund is sustained entirely by season subscribers and ticket sales.
FOR TICKETS: Tickets are available online at tickets.pugetsound.edu or Wheelock Information Center, 253.879.3100. Admission is $15 for the general public; $10 for seniors (55+), students, military, and Puget Sound faculty and staff. The concert is free for current Puget Sound students. Group ticket rates are available for parties of 10 or more by calling 253.879.3555 in advance. Any remaining tickets will be available at the door.
For directions and a map of the campus: pugetsound.edu/directions
For accessibility information, please contact accessibility@pugetsound.edu or 253.879.3931, or visit pugetsound.edu/accessibility.
Press photos of Michael Seregow can be downloaded from pugetsound.edu/pressphotos.
Photos on page: From the top right: Michael Seregow; Beethoven, drawing by C. F. K. Klober, 1818
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