He Wrote/She Wrote
Sunday, May 19, 2024
3:00 pm
Hosted by Nancy Stone & Jonathan Levy
25 Guests • $75
Inspired by classical couples, the husband-wife team that makes up the LeRoi-Nickel Duo (Nancy LeRoi Nickel and Tim Nickel) offers a program of one piano, four-hand works by composers like Robert and Clara Schumann and Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn. Enjoy delicious appetizers “paired” with select wines in this inviting home in Southwest Portland.
- More About Tim and Nancy LeRoi Nickel
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The LeRoi-Nickel Duo have been researching, arranging, and presenting ensemble keyboard music for over twenty-five years. As a piano duet team, Timothy Nickel and Nancy LeRoi Nickel have performed twice at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in New York and gave their UK debut at the Purcell Room in 1990 after studying at the Guildhall School in London. The Duo have performed the small but intriguing organ duet repertory throughout the Pacific Northwest and at concerts in England, France, and Germany. At their Berlin organ duet recital in August of 1996, the critic at Die Welt wrote of their “virtuosic playing, a virtual swirling dance without ever getting entangled.” The Duo have three CD’s available on the Arsis label from E. C. Schirmer in Boston (http://www.arsisaudio.com) - “Romantic Connections” - piano duets by Schumann, Goetz and Mendelssohn, “For Two to Play” - a collection of organ duets recorded on the Fritts/Richards organ at St. Alphonsus Catholic Church in Seattle, and “Family Classics” - French piano duets by Bizet, Ravel, Fauré and Florent Schmitt inspired by childhood. The Nickels teach on the music faculty of Marylhurst University.
