Downtown Music at Grace Free Concert: Wednesday, March 27, 12:00 to 1:00 PM: Duo Lontano, piano

Piano team Duo Lontano plays music from South America including works by Gottschalk, Lecuona, Piazzolla, and Villa-Lobos. Pianist Babette Hierholzer’s debut with the Berlin Philharmonic was followed by numerous performances with this famed orchestra led by renowned conductors Klaus Tennstedt, Colin Davis, and Leopold Hager. Jurgen Appell, a three-time prize winner of the prestigious Berlin Steinway Competition, made his concert debut, at age sixteen, in Berlin’s Philharmonic Hall. In 2010, the Duo performed the Mozart Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra with the celebrated Orquesta Juvenil Simon Bolıvar conducted by Maestro Gustavo Dudamel.

This concert is made possible with the generous support of the Brian Wallach Agency, White Plains, New York.  Personal and Commercial Insurance since 1949.