Guest artist Grant Mack, piano, joins University of Nebraska-Lincoln Glenn Korff School of Music Professor of Viola Clark Potter in a performance of three works for viola and piano by Paul Hindemith on Sunday, August 28 at 7:30 p.m. in the Westbrook Recital Hall. The performance is free and open to the public.
Mr. Mack is formerly the pianist of the Honolulu Symphony and is now living in Eugene, Oregon. Mr. Mack and Mr. Potter grew up in the same town of Longview, WA, and this is their first collaboration since high school, when Grant accompanied Clark as high schoolers at solo and ensemble contest! Viola and piano were the two instruments Hindemith himself played, and while he composed a sonata for every instrument of the orchestra, he gave extra time to the viola, composing five solo sonatas and four sonatas with piano. Two sonatas from Hindemith’s early years will be performed: the tuneful Op. 11, No. 4; and the driving Op. 25, No. 4. Also performed will be the “Meditation”, arranged for the same combination from his ballet Nobilissima Visione.
Clark Potter is professor of viola and on the conducting faculty at UNL. He is principal viola of the Lincoln Symphony, director of NEBratsche (the UNL viola ensemble), and is an active performer as a solo recitalist and chamber musician. He has conducted the Lincoln Youth Symphony since 2007; is a member of two chamber ensembles: the Nebraska Chamber Players and the Trans-Nebraska Players; and is in demand as an adjudicator and clinician at schools in Nebraska and around the region.