Mauro Castillo with new artwork against new Baldwin grand piano from Pūlama Lāna‘i
Kahului, HI, December 16, 2013 for immediate release.
Twenty students from Anne Ku’s piano classes will be giving a recital on Wednesday December 18th from 6 pm at UH Maui College. Doors open at 5:45 pm with refreshments and other goodies during the intermission. The first hour will be solo performances including contemporary and beloved classics, popular favorites, and Beatles songs. Following the half-hour intermission, there will be an ensemble workshop in which members of the audience are welcome to join the pianists on the 18 electric pianos and two grand pianos in works such as Pachelbel’s Canon, arranged in C, to correspond with Vitamin C’s Graduation Song, John Lennon’s Imagine, Christmas songs, and improvisations. Some of the students will bring their ukeleles and guitars to free up the pianos for use.
To celebrate end of the semester, artist Mauro Castillo, who will be performing “Lean On Me” has finished an oil painting, as yet untitled, for viewing at the recital.
Wednesday December 18, 2013
Piano Class Recital
5:45 PM Doors open
6 PM Solo performances
Intermission
7:30 PM Ensemble workshop
Free
UH Maui College
Kupa’a 104
On Friday Dec 13, 2013, the University of Hawaii Community Colleges announced that UH Maui College was awarded a grant from the Part-time Student Initiatives Award for the proposal “Piano Ensemble for Part Timers,” a project that piano instructor Anne Ku will implement through the purchase of additional electric pianos with headsets and adaptors to be placed in four locations on campus and time to arrange music for piano ensemble, in which pianists of different levels can play at the same time. The grant also includes “taster” workshops to allow non-students to experience one hour of playing together on different pianos.