The first performance in the Gallery Concert Series is approaching.
This non-profit series began in 1988, offering six concerts a year in the exhibition hall of the Wellington County Museum.
On Sept. 30 at 2pm accomplished artist Sandra Mogensen will play the Yamaha grand piano in the initial concert.
Mogensen recorded her first solo album at the CBC’s Glenn Gould Studio for a 2007 release in conjunction with the centenary of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg’s death (entitled Sandra Mogensen: Piano Music of Edvard Grieg).
A second disc of Grieg’s piano music followed in 2009 and a third this year.
Mogensen, of Stratford, holds the position of faculty pianist at the annual National Music Camp (NMC) of Canada at Lake Couchiching and is a founding member of the National Piano Trio, ensemble-in-residence at NMC.
The program for the Sept. 30 concert includes works by Edvard Grieg, Fred Hersch and Janis Medins, a Latvian composer who died in 1966.
Tickets for the Gallery Concert Series, which offers special pricing for young students of music, are available at the door and include admission to all the museum’s displays as well as after-concert refreshments and opportunities to meet the performers.
