A two-piano concert by Ari Snyder and Charlene Biggs runs at St. Andrew’s Place in downtown Sudbury Nov. 7.
A fundraiser for St. Andrew’s United Church, the show begins at 7 p.m.
The concert is entitled Music from the Hearth to emphasize that the music to be performed represents the deepest, most heart-felt aspirations of composers and audiences over the last few centuries.
This music is very like the songs and stories told around the communal hearths of our ancestors — for the hearth was the very centre of the home, and of the community.
We listen to this music in order to remember and share the best of the human experience. Composers for this programme include Bach, Chopin, Debussy, Gershwin and Rachmaninoff.
Snyder and Biggs have each had extensive careers as performers and teachers in Canada and abroad.
Snyder has performed folk music, jazz and even rock — as pianist and music director of The Rocky Horror Show.
He has directed more than four dozen musical theatre productions, including a sold-out two weeks at Ottawa’s National Art Centre of Ain’t Misbehavin.
Biggs has performed in many prestigious venues in Great Britain, such as the Royal Festival Hall, Purcell Room, Greenwich Festival, and the Barbican Arts Centre, and been soloist with orchestras including those of Toronto, the Colchester Symphony, Sudbury and North Bay Symphonies.
She is currently artistic director of the City of Lakes Music Society.
The musicians met when Biggs invited Snyder to perform with her in the Piano Grande Concert of the Sudbury Music Society.
Admission is $20 for adults and seniors and $10 for children and youth, with tickets available at the door (or reserve them by phoning 450-522 6350 or 705-662-0115.