
Loretto Motherhouse Church Concert Series: Piano Concert by Gregory Partain
November 3, 2024 at 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
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Please join us at 3pm on Sunday, November 3, for a piano concert entitled “Fantasy, Spirituality and Transcendence” by Gregory Partain. The concert will include works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Schubert. This is the next concert in the Loretto Motherhouse Church concert series. Gregory Partain’s bio can be read below.
All are welcome. Admission is free.
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Gregory Partain, pianist and composer
In his nearly four decades on the concert stage, Gregory Partain has performed as piano recitalist, concerto soloist, and chamber music collaborator throughout the United States, as well as in Germany, Poland, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Russia, and Greece.
Concerto appearances include performances with the Seattle Symphony, the Lexington Philharmonic, the City of Athens (Greece) Symphony, the Yaroslavl (Russia) Symphony Orchestra, the Eugene (OR) Symphony, and the Sunriver and Peter Britt summer festival orchestras, among others. Recent solo piano projects include Beethoven’s Odyssey—a seven-evening lecture-recital series comprising 22 Beethoven sonatas, with performances in Lexington (KY), Portland (OR), Boston, and Chicago. This year, he is collaborating with playwright Bo List and Tosha Fowler, Director of Theater at Transylvania University to develop an original play, entitled Ghost Music, about Clara and Robert Schumann, to be premiered at Transylvania in May, 2025.
Partain has garnered consistent critical acclaim for his recordings of a wide-ranging repertoire spanning the 17th to 21st centuries: “Gregory Partain is a gifted pianist, and every item is intelligently and sympathetically played” (BBC Music Magazine); “This is my kind of pianism: strong, intelligent, unshowy, authoritative and deeply satisfying” (Terry Teachout); “Some of the best Scarlatti I've ever heard…Dare I say it? These approach the same level as Horowitz’s legendary recordings” (American Record Guide); “Gregory Partain is a composer of significance” (Fanfare Magazine).
As a composer, Partain has focused primarily on vocal genres. In fall of 2015, the Lexington Singers and University of Kentucky Chorale presented Requiem, Partain’s major work, for double chorus and orchestra. In 2007, he received an Al Smith Professional Assistance grant from the Kentucky Arts Council for his collected works. In 2022, he released his third compact disc recording, “Intimations of the Immortal beloved,” a collaboration with tenor Daniel Weeks. The album includes vocal music by Beethoven, solo piano music by Robert Schumann, and Partain’s original song cycle “Come to the Garden in Spring,” inspired by love poetry of Rumi. An active member of the Kentucky Music Teachers Association and Music Teachers National Association, Partain was named 2005 KMTA-MTNA Commissioned Composer. He has also performed recitals as the featured conference artist for both KMTA and Hawaii MTA.
Partain received his Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance from the University of Washington, and Masters and Doctoral degrees from The University of Texas at Austin as a Javits Fellowship recipient. Dr. Partain has taught at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky since 1991 and chairs the Music Program.
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