Satie Soirée
Saturday, February 27, 2027
7:30 pm
Hosted by Tim & Nancy Nickel
20 Guests • $100
Imagine a Parisian salon where music, cinema, and conversation mingle with French-inspired hors d’oeuvres and select wines. The evening’s centerpiece is a rare treat: view the 1924 René Clair film Entr’acte, while enjoying Erik Satie’s delightful four-hand piano score performed by the LeRoi-Nickel Duo. Add the shimmering music of Claude Debussy and the irresistible wit and charm of Francis Poulenc and it’s an evening of French flair, unexpected delights, and joie de vivre, all in a lovely NW Portland home.
- 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.
