Tyler Kivel and Nicholas Schmelter commenced a Midwest tour of piano-organ duo recitals with recitals in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, London, Ontario, Canada, Alpena, Bay City, Flint, and Gaylord, and a stop here in Saginaw, Michigan. The ensemble has realized creative new orchestrations of selections by Anderson, Debussy, Grainger, Lutoslawski, Poulenc, Saint-Saëns, and Shostokovich.
Among its goals, the duo aims to bring music to diverse demographics and rural communities, and to offer educational opportunities to collaborative artists and keyboard musicians. Chicago-based pianist, Tyler Kivel is an active soloist, freelance performer, teacher, and chamber musician, including his faculty role at ChiArts and recent musical direction of Thrones! The Musical Parody. Kivel has earned several competition-based awards and made his Carnegie Hall debut in April 2018. Nicholas Schmelter is director of worship and congregational life at First Presbyterian Church in Caro, Michigan, is an adjunct faculty member at Saginaw Valley State University, and is artist in residence at Trinity Episcopal Church in Bay City, and Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church in Flint, Michigan. He is a frequent recitalist, offering performances throughout Michigan as well as in Washington, D.C., Milwaukee, London and Toronto, Canada, and other regions. A composer himself, he has commissioned and premiered new music by Moonyeen Albrecht, Edward Moroney, Robert Powell, Philip Rice, Bernard Wayne Sanders, and others.
For more information, please call the Church office at 989-754-6565 Monday-Thursday, 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM or send an email.
Location: Two blocks off S. Washington off of Baum Street at Hayden Street. Use the Hayden Street entrance to the Theatre.