The Central Coast Music Teachers Association is sponsoring a lecture demonstration in Santa Maria on March 19 at 10:30 a.m. Dr. Charles Asche, renowned professor of music from UCSB, will present a lecture regarding the origins and pedagogical nature of Bach’s works. He’ll also share techniques of pedal use for the piano. Come to the Santa Maria Library’s Shepard Hall, located to the right of the lobby. All interested teachers and advancing students are invited to attend this free event.
Asche has performed as a concerto soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician throughout the United States, as well as in South America, Taiwan, and Russia. He’s been a member of the faculties of the Interlochen Center for the Arts, the Claremont Colleges, and is currently senior lecturer at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
For more information, call Louise Frye at 481-7561 or Debbie Lagomarsino at 237-2281.
Arts Briefs is compiled by Arts Editor Shelly Cone. Information should be sent to the Sun via fax, e-mail, or mail.
This article appears in Mar 3-10, 2011.