PORT TOWNSEND — William Chapman Nyaho will perform at 3 p.m. Saturday.
The piano concert is part of the new Art and Our Schimmel Grand series in the sanctuary at Grace Lutheran Church of Port Townsend, 1120 Walker St.
A donation of $20 per person to support the series’ inaugural concert is suggested.
Chapman Nyaho will play music by Chopin, Bach, Rachmaninoff, Florence Price, Margaret Bonds and Samuel Coleridge Taylor.
The program also will include music by composers from Cuba and Egypt.
Chapman Nyaho has earned degrees from St. Peter’s College at Oxford University, the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., and the University of Texas at Austin.
Chapman Nyaho is on the faculty at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, runs a private piano studio in Seattle and is on the summer faculty at Interlochen Center for the Arts in Interlochen, Mich.
Chapman Nyaho is an advocate for music by composers of African descent and has compiled and edited a five-volume anthology, “Piano Music of Africa and the African Diaspora.”
The concert is the first in a series featuring Pacific Northwest pianists and highlighting the church’s Schimmel grand piano, which was purchased in memory of late congregation member George Hanson.
Hanson, who died in 2018, retired to Port Townsend following a career at of the University of Chicago Divinity School.
Other concerts in the series include Dainius Vaicekonis on Oct. 20 and Rachelle McCabe on April 6.
For more information, call the church at 360-385-1595 or email gracelutheranpt@gmail.com.
