Exeter, NH (March 6, 2006)—On Tuesday, April 11, 2006, at 7 p.m., Phillips Exeter Academy will present pianists Jung Mi Lee and Jon Sakata in a duo piano recital entitled Contexts/Memories at Powell Hall inside the Forrestal-Bowld Music Center on Tan Lane. This concert is free and open to the public.  

The program will feature one of Mozart’s final keyboard works—Fantasy in F minor, K. 608 for one piano/four hands; Robert Cogan’s Contexts/Memories: Version C (2000) for two pianos, a work composed for and dedicated to Ms. Lee and Mr. Sakata; and the world premiere of a new composition by Sakata, Yesterary II (2005–06) for one piano/four hands and two (English/German) reciters.

Sakata describes his composition as “a large-scale work in which archives of text excerpts from multiple genres are conglomerated with heterogeneous musical materials into a stratigraphic soundscape.”

Lee and Sakata, both members of the Academy’s music faculty, are active in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. In June 2005, they were the featured guest artists of the premiere week of contemporary music at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre–Brazil). They have also been featured guest artists at several different conservatories, universities and colleges; the Talloires International Composers Conference (France); and Harvard University’s Society of Fellows, among others. 

For further information, please call the music department at (603) 777-3453. A complete list of upcoming events is available on the Phillips Exeter Academy public events line at (603) 777-4309 and on our website at www.exeter.edu. For directions to Phillips Exeter Academy, call (603) 777-4330.

Phillips Exeter Academy is a coeducational, independent preparatory school that was founded in 1781 and originated the system of instruction known as Harkness teaching in 1931. In the spirit of its charter to foster both goodness and knowledge, students come from a wide variety of geographic, economic, racial and religious backgrounds. The diverse student body comes from approximately 46 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and 25 foreign countries.

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Contact: Julie Quinn   Famebridge Witherspoon
  (603) 777-3450      (603) 777-3450
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