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DUO SEMAPHORE re-invents four hand piano music!
DUO SEMAPHORE
Pianists Rachael Hutchings and Hukum Singh Khalsa are DUO SEMAPHORE. With Bay Area ties both professional and personal, the duo is thrilled to return in June for two concerts. Bringing uniquely joyful energy to the art of four hand piano music, the Denver-based pianists began their collaboration in 2018 and have delighted audiences at recitals and house concerts ever since. Their fresh, exciting program will feature lyrical works from several composers well-known for their vocal writing, with selections from the early Romantic era to the present.
Marie Jaëll: Waltzes, Op. 8
Felix Mendelssohn: Andante and Allegro brillante, Op. 92
Mikhail Glinka: Overture to Ruslan and Lyudmila
Giacomo Puccini: Tre minuetti, SC 61
Reynaldo Hahn: Pièce en forme d'aria et bergerie
Stuart Greenbaum: Sonata for Piano 4 Hands
Colorado pianist and composer Rachael Hutchings recent performances feature both standard classical repertoire and her own compositions. Rachael's compositional style is at once expressive, approachable, and innovative. Her settings of poetry by Rilke for voice and piano have been featured on CPRs Colorado Spotlight, performed with her husband, tenor Daniel Hutchings. Before arriving in Colorado in 2010, she was an active performer and music teacher in San Francisco. Rachael served as an instructor at the San Francisco Community Music Center and adjunct professor of piano at the University of San Francisco.
She appears as a guest artist, visiting lecturer, and collaborative pianist. Rachael and her duet partner Hukum Singh Khalsa are DUO SEMAPHORE, performing throughout the Denver area and beyond. She has served as an adjudicator and administrator for various student music programs and competitions, and she teaches piano and composition privately. Composition students from her private studio have gone on to top college composition programs. Rachael is on the faculty at the University of Denvers Lamont School of Music, where she teaches piano repertoire.
She began studying piano in her hometown of Iowa City, Iowa and earned her B.M.A. in piano performance at the University of Michigan School of Music. She completed a Master of Music degree in composition and piano performance at the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music where she studied with Alice Rybak. In addition to music, Rachael is passionate about volunteering as a house manager at Sacred Heart House of Denver and as a math tutor at the Denver Womens Correctional Facility.
Pianist Hukum Singh Khalsa, a Colorado native, received his formal education at the University of Colorado Boulder where he studied languages, early music, electronic music and earned a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance. The majority of his musical education was forged as a working musician and in the rehearsal space of conductors: choral and orchestral (David Zinman, Duain Wolfe, Marin Alsop, Adam Flatt), instrumental and voice teachers, choreographers, and theatre directors.
Teachers Mr. Khalsa has studied with include Larry Graham, Miyoko Lotto, Robert Spillman, and Rami Bar-Niv. He has been privileged to work privately with former University of Denver Lamont School of Music faculty member Alice Rybak.
Mr. Khalsa has held positions as accompanist for Central City Opera, accompanist for the Colorado Symphony Chorus, accompanist for the Colorado Childrens Chorale, and staff accompanist at Metropolitan State University. He has performed all over the United States and Italy. He has also served as an opera coach and collaborative pianist for the students and faculty at Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver, taught voice and piano at Arapahoe Community College, and has run a private piano teaching studio for over twenty years. Hukum often collaborates with the Chamber Music Society of Greater Denver.
Mr. Khalsa is a passionate educator, a teacher and practitioner of Kundalini Yoga/meditation and Sat Nam Rasayan (a healing modality).
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LocationPiedmont Center for the Arts (View)
801 Magnolia Ave
Piedmont, CA 94611
United States
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