Guest pianist Craig Sheppard will perform Bach’s twenty-four preludes and fugues that form the first part of the “Well Tempered Clavier” in a free recital on Monday, April 9 at 8:15 p.m. in the Hockett Family Recital Hall.
Craig Sheppard has been professor of piano at the University of Washington in Seattle since 1993. He won the silver medal at the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition in England in 1972. Living in London for the next twenty years, he established himself as one of the preeminent pianists of his generation, making frequent appearances on both BBC Radio and Television. While living in the UK, Sheppard also taught at the University of Lancaster, The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Yehudi Menuhin School, and gave numerous master classes at both Oxford and Cambridge universities. His recordings of the 32 Beethoven Piano Sonatas, the six Bach Partitas, and Bach’s Two-part Inventions and Three-part Sinfonias, all recorded live in Seattle’s Meany Theater for Romeo Records in New York, have garnered praise in such disparate sources as Gramophone, International Record Review, and Fanfare. For more information, visit Sheppard’s website at www.craigsheppard.net.
