Recital comes to Max Noah Hall

Music faculty members Gregory Pepetone and Richard Mercier will present “The Beast With Twenty Fingers — A Dexterous Evening of Keyboard Duos” Monday, Jan. 26 at 7:30 p.m. in Max Noah Recital Hall, of Porter Hall, on the Georgia College & State University campus.
The recital, part of the Dorian Piano Series at the university, will feature the works of Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart and Shubert. The bizarre title, straight from Pepetone’s “Gothic imagination,” is derived from the title of a 1940s horror film, “The Beast with Five Fingers” – a movie concerning a demented concert pianist whose left hand knows not what his severed right hand is doing. Pepetone and Mercier said they hope that the audience will find this musical offering to be “a sparkling, humorous and confident tour through the Golden Age of Western tonal music.”
Pepetone grew up in Las Vegas, where, at the age of 12, he won a competition that led to a performance for Leonard Bernstein in Carnegie Hall. He attended high school at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan as a student of acclaimed Hungarian pianist, Balint Vazsonyi.
From 1973-79 he studied privately, taught and concertized in London, winning praise from London Times critic Paul Griffith as “a pianist of elegance and taste.” Pepetone attended the Dubuque Theological Seminary for a year, after which he commenced his collegiate teaching career in music.

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