Guest artist Kate Boyd, piano

Guest artist Kate Boyd, professor of piano at Butler University, will perform works by Beethoven, Chopin and Debussy.

(See Pianist returns home for Nov. 8 concert)

A native of Rock Island, she holds degrees from Stony Brook University, Oberlin Conservatory, and the Hannover (Germany) Academy of Music. 

Boyd received the 2019 Teacher of the Year award from the Indiana Music Teachers Association and the 2017 Outstanding Professor of the Year award from Butler University. In summers, Boyd serves as the head of the piano faculty of the internationally-renowned Interlochen Arts Camp in northern Michigan. 

Program

Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 7 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
   Allegro molto e con brio (1770-1827)
   Largo, con gran espressione
   Menuetto: Allegro
   Allegro

Impromptu in A-flat Major, Op. 29 Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Mazurka in A-flat Major, Op. 59, No. 2
Prelude in A-flat Major, Op 28, No. 1
Valse brillante in A-flat Major, Op. 34, No. 1

Pagodes, from Estampes Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
L’Isle joyeuse