PORT ANGELES — Chopin, Mompou, Ravel and Debussy — plus some Argentine tango music — are on the itinerary, and that’s just the first half of pianist Lisa Lanza’s recital, a rare one in Port Angeles this Friday.
Lanza, an internationally known artist who lives in Port Townsend, will offer Ravel’s “Ondine,” Chopin’s etudes and a Debussy prelude to start the evening at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 301 E. Lopez Ave.
Admission to Friday’s 7 p.m. recital is $10 for adults and $5 for children and teens up through high school age, with proceeds supporting Holy Trinity’s music program.
After intermission, Lanza will play Franz Liszt’s Sonata in B minor, a work she calls one of the greatest piano pieces ever written.
“It’s not performed around here very often,” she added, so the second half of her recital will be given over to the 162-year-old sonata.
“The program has such a wide variety . . . there is some very complex music, but also some music you can just enjoy,” Lanza said of her recital, adding that the Debussy work is an especially imaginative one, titled “What the West Wind Saw.”
To add a bit of strings to the experience, Madelyn Kowalski, a 17-year-old cellist from Marrowstone Island, will offer “Requierbos,” a piece by the Spanish composer Gaspar Cassado.
Statewide winner
Kowalski recently won the statewide National Music Teachers Association competition and will travel with Lanza as her accompanist to Missoula, Mont., for the Jan. 17 regional competition.
Lanza studies with Port Angeles pianist and teacher Loran Olsen, who invited her to give this recital at Holy Trinity.
The church has “a beautiful piano and a beautiful acoustical space,” said the artist, who’s performed in venues from Hythe, England, to Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in New York City.
Her engagements this month include a performance at the Seattle Art Museum on Thursday and a concert celebrating the restoration of the Steinway grand piano at Port Townsend’s Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2333 San Juan Ave., at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 23.
For information about the pianist and her forthcoming performances, see www.LisaLanza.com.
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Features Editor Diane Urbani de la Paz can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 5062, or at diane.urbani@peninsuladailynews.com.
