Presbyterian College will host two recitals in conjunction with its 2017 Piano Clinic on Thursday, Feb. 16 and Friday, Feb. 17 at 7:30 p.m. in Edmunds Hall.

The Thursday night performance is free and open to the public and will feature Dr. James Buckland, adjunct professor of music, on the guitar and Dr. Karen Buckland, professor of music, on the fortepiano. The duo will perform works of early 19th-century works by Giuliani, Pettoletti, and Hummel.

Kenneth Drake and Jun-Hee Han, guest clinicians, will perform a fortepiano recital on Friday, tickets are on sale for $10.  The recital will feature works by Beethoven, Haydn, and the Mozart Piano Concerto, K. 415, with a string quartet.  Members of the string quartet are Carol Roosevelt, violin, Paula Harshaw, viola, and PC music faculty, Catherine Hazan, violin, and Richard Thomas, cello.

Drake is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Music of the University of Illinois, having taught previously at Evansville College in Indiana and Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.

Drake was an early exponent of playing a repertoire of the classic period on instruments of that period.  For 40 years he has promoted the use of period pianos for the music of the classic era, making him one of the earliest exponents of the fortepiano.  Drake’s website provides pictures and descriptions of four generations of English Broadwood pianos, including an 1816 grand that is the same model as the piano given to Beethoven by the Broadwood company in 1818.

Han is a pianist and conductor. A native-born Korean and now an American citizen, Han completed his undergraduate study at the Chicago Conservatory of the Performing Arts at Roosevelt University, where he studied with Ludmila Lazar, and his graduate study with scholarship support from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, earning a performance diploma and studying with Edmund Battersby.  He also coaches conducting with Paul Vermel.

Drake and Han book, “Thoughts for the Pilgrimage” was published in 2016 by OMF Music Resources.

For more information, contact Karen Buckland at 864.833.8467.