Date & Time: Saturday September 28, 7:30 p.m.
Venue: Incarnation Episcopal Church, 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: $20 General, $15 Seniors/Students
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Program
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Images, Book I (1905)
Reflets dans l’eau (Reflections in the Water)
Hommage à Rameau
Mouvement (Perpetual motion)
J. S. Bach (1685-1750) Tree Preludes (1730-40)
G major BWV 902
F# minor from Well-tempered Clavier Bk. II
F major from Well-tempered Clavier Bk. II
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) Tree Rag Caprices (1922)
Sec et musclé (Dry and muscular)
Romance
Précis et nerveux (Precise and nervous)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) Sonata, op. 26 (1949)
About the Artists
Mark Valenti received his Master of Music from Northwestern University, Bachelor of Music from the Philadelphia Musical Academy and has studied with such notable teachers as Benjamin Whitten, Zoltan Kocsis and Mary Sauer. In addition to giving solo recitals in cities throughout the U.S., Mr. Valenti has performed in France, Belgium, Hungary and Luxembourg as well as for former First Lady Barbara Bush in Washington, D.C.
Mark Valenti has performed recitals live on WFMT classical radio. He has also done extensive work in the Jazz field including performances with Gregory Hines, Frank Foster and Al Grey and has appeared on television with Joe Sudler’s Swing Machine and singer/actor Christopher Durham.
Formerly Professor of Music at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Xavier University in Chicago and the Loire Valley Music Institute in France, Mr. Valenti currently teaches at his studio in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago.