The Arts Institute of Western Maine in collaboration with Kingfield Pops and the Mahoosuc Arts Council presents a concert by the New York piano and percussion duo Synchronicity in Bjorn Auditorium at Mount Blue High School on Sunday April 3 at 2:00. $15. admission; students with ID are free. The duo, brothers Garah and Greg Landes, are known nationally and internationally for their arrangements of many well-known symphonic and chamber works by composers such as Debussy, Stravinsky, Ginastera, Bernstein, and jazz and world music. Synchronicity has appeared widely in the New York City area, at the Bar Harbor Music Festival, the Tanglewood Jazz Festival, the Tierra di Sienna chamber music Festival in Tuscany, and at the Moab Music Festival in Utah.

 

The performers are recognized as outstanding music educators for their school and college programs and student workshops in performance, composition and arranging. They will be in Farmington and Bethel from March 31st through April 5th, doing assemblies and workshops and master classes for elementary, middle school, high school and college students from Farmington, Kingfield, Phillips, Strong, Eustis and Bethel.

 

This visit is generously supported by the Onion Foundation of Winthrop, the Davis Family Foundation of Falmouth and the Wilson Lake Inn. AIWM is an affiliate of the University of Maine Farmington.

 

Note:  Synchronicity at the Homestead on Saturday noon April 2.  Come for a Meet, Greet, and Listen lunch to get a sampling of their music and participate in a community welcome for the duo.