Augustus Arnone, a pianist and doctoral candidate, will perform a concert Tuesday, Oct. 5, at 8 p.m. in Barnes Hall that also features guest bass player Robert Nairn. The program of music for piano and double bass will include works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Mozart and Sperger. Arnone will play one solo piano work, Mozart's "Sonata in C Major," K. 330.
Nairn is associate professor of double bass at Penn State University and directs the University's Baroque Ensemble. A native of Australia, he received his Bachelor of Music with distinction from the Canberra School of Music and a postgraduate diploma from the Berlin Musikhochschule by courtesy of a two-year DAAD German Government Scholarship.
He has performed with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic, English Chamber Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, and the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique. In the early music world, he has worked with the Handel and Haydn Society and Washington Bach Consort and performs regularly in London as a member of Florilegium and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. His first solo CD is due for release shortly.
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