Kyle Farley-Robinson is the latest and the youngest performer in the Juneau Piano Series.<\/p>\n
The 18-year-old senior at Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé will play the baby grand piano in the Juneau Arts & Culture Center at 7 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n
“I’m really happy to be part of such a group of really excellent pianists who have performed or will perform” Farley-Robinson said.<\/p>\n
Robinson is a previous winner of the Juneau Symphony Youth Concerto Competition and the Juneau Arts & Humanities Council’s Jane and Tom Stewart Memorial Award for Excellence in Music.<\/p>\n
Jon Hays, Nic Temple and Alexander Tutunov were past performers in the series.<\/p>\n
During Tutunov’s performance, Hays and Farley-Robinson joined him at the JACC’s piano for a six-handed waltz.<\/p>\n
[Look ma, six hands]<\/a><\/ins><\/p>\n The ongoing series is one of Juneau Arts & Humanities Council’s Art2 (Art for the People Art by the People) programs, and Hays, its organizer, said it is meant to highlight the JACC’s piano and piano music in general. <\/p>\n While Farley-Robinson will be the only talented young adult on stage Friday, he said Juneau is home to a fair number of classically inclined, talented musicians in his age group.<\/p>\n “A lot of my friends actually play other instruments,” Farley said. “I know a really good cellist and clarinetist.”<\/p>\n Farley-Robinson will play a piece by Beethoven, “Appassionata,” and a piece by Schubert,”Little A Major.”<\/p>\n “I’ve been working on the ‘Appassionata off and on for a little over two years now,” Farley-Robinson said. “I’ve never actually gotten the opportunity to perform it together. I’m really looking forward to performing the whole thing. Plus, it’s a really cool piece. It’s got a lot of different emotions in it —a lot of really nice contrasts in it.”<\/p>\n