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Eugene Gaub to perform piano concert in Fairfield April 9
Pianist Eugene Gaub will perform a concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 9 at the Fairfield Arts & Convention Center.
Admission is free, and donations are welcome.
Gaub made his New York debut performing Bartók’s First Piano Concerto with the Juilliard Orchestra at Lincoln Center. He has performed solo and chamber music throughout the United States. Along with his wife, violinist Nancy McFarland Gaub, he founded the Roycroft Chamber Music Festival in 1994 in East Aurora, New York, and was its co-artistic director and resident pianist. A graduate of the Juilliard School, he holds a doctorate from the Eastman School of Music. Eugene Gaub is Associate Professor of Music at Grinnell College.
In recent years, Eugene has given lecture-recitals for the International Festival of Spanish Keyboard Music, held in Mojácar, Spain, and at the Université Laval in Québec City, and at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He has performed all-Debussy and all-Chopin solo recitals for the Mayflower Lyceum, a performance of the Dvorak piano quintet at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) with the Pro Arte String Quartet, annual duo recitals with violinist Nancy McFarland Gaub at the Faulconer Gallery and at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre in Fairfield, and a piano master class at the University of Chicago.
He was the piano soloist for the Des Moines Symphony’s Beethoven (2015) and Prokofiev (2016) Beyond the Score concerts as well as pianist for a program of chamber music by Francis Poulenc at Des Moines’s Salisbury House. In 2016, he performed Mozart’s Piano Concerto in F Major, K. 459 with the Grinnell Symphony Orchestra — his sixth concerto collaboration with Eric McIntyre and the GSO. Other performances in recent years have included cycles of the complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, and a four-concert series devoted to the solo piano music of Gabriel Fauré.
In addition to piano, Gene sang with the Chamber Singers of Southeast Iowa from 2005 to 2022. An avid runner, Gene has finished eight half-marathons in the last three years.
