Front Range Piano Quartet to perform April 29

Lincoln, Neb.--The Front Range Piano Quartet (FRPQ) presents a program titled “Café Music!” on Tuesday, April 29 at 5:30 p.m. in Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119.

The concert is free and open to the public. It will also be live webcast. Visit https://go.unl.edu/gksomwebcasts the day of the performance for the link.

The program includes new works and classic pieces of the piano quartet and piano trio repertoire. The program includes Brazilian/American composer Clarice Assad’s “Z Sonata” and the energetic piano trio “Café Music” by American composer Paul Schoenfeld. The program also includes Mozart’s E-flat Major Piano Quartet and Gustav Mahler’s Piano Quartet in A minor.

The FRPQ includes Erik Peterson, violin; Glêsse Collet, viola; Karen Becker, cello; and Theresa Bogard, piano.

Peterson performs with the Mendelssohn Trio, Ivy Street Ensemble and Candlelight Concerts and he is artistic director of the Front Range Chamber Players. He works with students at the University of Denver, Colorado State University, Rocky Ridge Music Center, Denver Young Artists Orchestra and Denver School of the Arts, while maintaining a private teaching studio. He is currently the Concertmaster of Canto Deo.

Brazilian violist Collet immigrated to the U.S. in 2016. She was a top-prize winner at the “Jovens Solistas” competition in Piracicaba, Sao Paulo, and served as principal violist of the Symphony Orchestra Teatro Nacional de Brasilia. She was also a member of the Quarteto de Brasilia. She currently teaches viola at the University of Wyoming. She is a member of the Cheyenne Symphony and substitutes regularly with the Fort Collins Symphony and Casper Symphony.

Glenn Korff School of Music Professor of Cello Karen Becker is an active soloist and avid chamber musician. Performances have taken her around the world to the Czech Republic, England, Korea, Mexico, Norway, Switzerland, Vietnam and throughout the U.S. She tours regularly as a soloist and chamber player as part of the Becker-Bogard Duo, the Concordia String Trio and FRPQ.

Bogard is an American pianist dedicated to expanding the canon of traditional piano repertoire. As a recipient of a Fulbright grant, Bogard was able to explore her interest in historical performance practice and fortepiano studying at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague in the Netherlands. She was also a top-prize winner in the International Mozart Fortepiano Competition in Bruges, Belgium. A world traveler with a passion for other cultures, Bogard has performed throughout the U.S. and in 16 different countries on five continents.