Big names tickle the ivories in a bid to slam the lid on a yearlong campaign to purchase a piano for the Dave Dunnet theatre.
The campaign for a quality concert piano kicked off a year ago with .
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features seven players with seven personalities running the spectrum of musical styles.
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They include international classic pianist, Arthur Rowe, piano professor at UVic and artistic director of the Victoria Summer Music Festival.
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Other players include Brent Jarvis, Jan Sterling, Toni Blodgett, Niels Petersen, Pablo Cardenas and Ivan Elieff.
Elieff began playing piano when he started elementary school and since, his musical pursuits have, at various times, been either full or part time, but constant. Ivan has also had overlap in his music and legal careers, playing in lawyer groups, supporting Lawyers On Stage Theatre, and as a founding director of UJAMS.
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The organizer describes the evening as if it were a ride. We start with the classical realm of Rowe with a shift to blues and country rock with Petersen.
Blodgett swings into the jazz and ragtime leading into three other jazz pianists from traditional swing to bebop.
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All will play the Steinway seven-foot grand piano that lives at the Dave Dunnet Community Theatre, with a scant few payments left to claim ownership.
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It has been a year since Pianorama 1 and our launch to raise $100,000 to buy a concert grand piano for the Dave Dunnet Community Theatre. WeB次元官网网址檝e raised about $70,000 and hope to celebrate the conclusion of our fundraising efforts at Pianorama 2.
Like the first concert, it features seven local pianists playing different forms of solo piano music from classical to traditional jazz blues, country and rock to bebop and contemporary jazz and Latin jazz.
While the Steinway 7-foot concert grand lives at Dave Dunnet theatre, Blake wants to see the campaign wrap with a bang. Pianorama 2 is Sunday, Sept. 24 at the Dave Dunnet Community Theatre at Oak Bay High (2121 Cadboro Bay Rd.)
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Tickets are $25 in advance at Scotiabank in Oak Bay, Oak Bay Recreation Centre and Oak Bay High. TheyB次元官网网址檙e $30 at the door.
cvanreeuwyk@oakbaynews.com
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