Greg Anderson & David Kaplan met in 2003 at the Banff Music Festival and made their debut as a piano duo in 2006 while working toward their doctoral degrees at Yale University. In 2008, they won Yale’s Chamber Music Competition and have since continued their collaboration, recording an album for Albany Records and performing the world premiere of Ezra Laderman’s Interior Landscapes II, which he dedicated to them. Their tours have included a piano duo recital at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall and several performances of Bartok’s Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion. Anderson & Kaplan both live in Los Angeles with their spouses and get together regularly for home-cooked meals.
Anderson & Kaplan’s Wheaton program features Mozart’s joyous Sonata for Two Pianos, a scandalous excerpt from Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, an unexpected fantasy set that includes unheard music by Mozart, and two of Anderson’s own works: his transcendent Hallelujah Variations and an ultra virtuosic take on “America” from Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story.
