The Kiawah Arts & Cultural Events Council is presenting the following events in April:
College of Charleston, Young Artists: Clara Comacho, Pianist
Sunday, April 7, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Church of Our Saviour
The Kiawah Island Arts Council and the College of Charleston Department of Music are proud to present Clara Camacho, a Franco-Venezuelan pianist born into a family of musicians. Clara began studying the piano at the age of three at the Mozarteum School in Caracas in the class of Carlos Urbaneja. At the age of ten, she was accepted at the CRR of Paris. She later obtained her DEM diploma in 2019 from the Regional Conservatory of Paris in the class of David Saudubray. During her years of study, she won the National Piano Competition of Chatou for two consecutive years.
In the past three years, Clara has performed several solo piano recitals and chamber music concerts in France and the United States. In 2020, she received a scholarship to study in the class of the prestigious Ukrainian pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky at the College of Charleston. In her sophomore and junior year, Clara Camacho was awarded the Edwin Davis Peacock Award for excellence in piano and performed multiple concerts for the Piccolo Spoleto Festival.
Conrad Tao and Caleb Teicher: “Counterpoint”
Tuesday, April 30, 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm, Seabrook Island Club
Counterpoint is a collaboration between pianist and composer Conrad Tao and choreographer and tap dancer Caleb Teicher. The duo explores the dichotomy of their different perspectives and artistic practices, expanding their individual expressive capacity through a collective experience. Harmonic, rhythmic, and theatrical counterpoint between the artists seeks to map out constellations linking their disparate traditions, driving the imagination and opening the heart. The stylistically diverse music of Counterpoint includes the Aria from Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Art Tatum’s demented stride piano, Arnold Schoenberg’s ironic take on the Viennese waltz, a delicate miniature from Tao and Teicher’s More Forever, and threading it all together, a work that bridges traditions, approaches, and styles—Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Tao and Teicher’s earlier work, More Forever, is a Bessie Award-winning New York Times critic’s pick, which was lauded for “constantly extending the sonic aspects of dance.”
The Town of Kiawah Arts and Cultural Events Council works to enhance community appreciation and involvement in the performing arts within the Town of Kiawah Island and its environs by providing a diversity of planned programs.
Tickets to these April events are available by clicking here. To see the complete 2023-2024 Season Planner of Arts and Cultural Events calendar, click here.
-Submitted by Town of Kiawah Island Arts & Cultural Events Council
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