UW Faculty Duo Recital: Robin & Rachelle McCabe, piano

• Robin McCabe, piano
• Rachelle McCabe, piano

Robert Schumann — 6 Studien in kanonischer Form ("Canonic Etudes"), Op. 56 (selection; arr. Claude Debussy)
Robert Schumann — Andante and Variations for 2 pianos, 2 cellos, and French horn, Op. 46
Sergei Prokofiev — Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 "Classical" (arr. Rikuya Terashima)
Sergei Rachmaninoff — Symphonic Dances for Two Pianos, Op. 45 (arr. Vyacheslav Gryaznov)

Sparks fly when pianists Robin and Rachelle McCabe return to the Meany stage for a duo piano collaboration to include Schumann’s elegant Andante and Variations and two remarkable finger-blistering transcriptions: Prokofiev’s "Classical" Symphony and Gryaznov’s enriched arrangement of Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances. 

COVID-19 Protocols: Masks are recommended in all indoor spaces on the UW campus. Patrons must show proof of vaccination or recent negative provider-administered COVID-19 PCR test for entry to live events at Meany Hall. Individuals unable to be fully vaccinated, including children under age five and people with a medical or religious exemption, must have proof of a negative provider-administered COVID-19 PCR test (taken within 72 hours of the performance). UW staff will check for proof of vaccination and negative COVID PCR tests at the doors as a condition of entry. Proof of negative test result must come from a test provider, a laboratory or a health care provider. Home or self-administered tests will not be accepted.

Details of these policies and procedures are at: https://artsevents.washington.edu/covid-protocols.

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About Robin McCabe, piano

Robin McCabe has established herself as one of America's most communicative and persuasive artists, delighting audiences across the United States, Europe, Canada and in nine concert tours of the Far East. Winner of the International Concert Artists Guild Competition and recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation grant, Robin McCabe was the subject of a New Yorker magazine profile, "Pianist's Progress," later expanded into a book of the same title. A member of the Juilliard faculty from 1978 to 1987, she joined the piano faculty at the University of Washington in 1987 and was director of the School of Music from 1994 to 2009. McCabe holds a Michiko Morita Miyamoto Professorship in Piano at the UW.

https://music.washington.edu/people/robin-mccabe

About Rachelle McCabe, piano

Rachelle McCabe is Professor Emeritus of Music at Oregon State University and an internationally acclaimed concert pianist and artist teacher. She has concertized as soloist and chamber musician throughout North America and the United Kingdom, as well as in Europe, China, and Southeast Asia.

As concerto soloist Rachelle McCabe has appeared with many orchestras including the Seattle Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Victoria Symphony, and the Corvallis-OSU Symphony. Her solo recital performances include concerts at The National Gallery in Washington DC, the Goethe Institute in Singapore, and the Findhorn Institute in Scotland. Her many chamber music partnerships include tours with the Philadelphia String Quartet, clarinetist David Shifrin of the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, Boston violinists Yuri and Dana Mazurkevich, and flutist Torkyl Bye of the Oslo Philharmonic. She performs in chamber music festivals such as the Chintimini Festival in Oregon, the Highlands Festival in North Carolina, Chamber Music Northwest in Oregon, and the Victoria International Music Festival in British Columbia. With her sister Robin McCabe, she performs duo piano concerts nationally and internationally.

Believing in the power of music to affect change, Rachelle McCabe has created innovative programs with acclaimed writer/philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore to address the crisis of global extinction and climate change. They have taken their programs across the USA and Canada. Their powerful program, Variations on a Theme of Extinction, weaves Rachelle’s performance of Rachmaninoff’s Variations on a Theme of Corelli with Kathleen’s spoken narrative. An acclaimed film version entitled The Extinction Variations was created by Brooklyn-based filmmaker Nara Garber in 2019.

Rachelle McCabe is Artistic Director of Corvallis-OSU Piano International with its prestigious Steinway Piano Series, community concerts and festivals, and educational outreach programs. She also co-directs the annual OSU Chamber Music Workshop, a summer camp for young musicians.

A highly respected teacher, Professor McCabe taught hundreds of college piano students at Oregon State University until her retirement as a full professor from the university in 2020. She was named a Master Teacher at Oregon State. She now teaches an independent piano studio and appears frequently as an artist teacher and adjudicator, nationally and internationally. In the 2022-23 season she judged competitions and festivals in Seattle (Seattle Young Artists Music Festival), Hong Kong (The Hong Kong Schools Music Festival), Portland (Oregon Music Teachers Association), and Alaska (Alaska Piano Competition in Anchorage), and taught master classes in Atlanta (Emory University), Seattle (Seattle Pacific University) and at the University of Oregon in Eugene. In 2018, she taught master classes in Beijing at Renmin University, China Conservatory and Capital Normal University. Earlier in her career, Rachelle McCabe served as an Artist in Residence and was appointed as affiliate faculty member at La Salle College of the Arts in Singapore.

Rachelle McCabe holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The University of Michigan where she studied with Gyorgy Sandor and Theodore Lettvin. She earned her Master’s degree from The Juilliard School where she studied with Ania Dorfmann, and her Bachelor’s from The University of Washington with Béla Siki. Additional teachers were Willard Schultz, Gary Graffman, and Leon Fleisher.

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