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Pianist Pine up next for GSMF
The Greencastle Summer Music Festival presents pianist Nikolaos Pine performing music by Rachmaninoff, Chopin and Liszt at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, the fifth of a series of 12 weekly concerts in Gobin Church.
Presented without admission charge, the programs are made possible by donations from individuals and businesses, including Bill and Lucy Wieland, the sponsors of this week’s concert. The GSMF also receives support from the Inn at DePauw, an endowment at the Putnam County Community Foundation, the Putnam County Convention and Visitors Bureau and Gobin Church, making its facilities available to the festival since 2005.
Pine is stepping in at the last minute. One of this week’s originally scheduled ensemble, “The Vivaldi Project,” tested positive for Covid-19 Monday morning and the group had to cancel its performance. Nevertheless, Allison Edberg Nyquist, one of the members of that group (who had not yet met with her colleague who is ill), is coming to town to perform for the children in the Summer Enrichment Program, also hosted by Gobin.
“This is our second concert we’ve had to rearrange due to a performer contracting Covid,” GSMF founding artistic director Eric Edberg said. “Nik is a wonderful young artist based in Indianapolis. We are friends on Facebook, where I noticed that he’d played a recital on Saturday. I gave him a call this morning, and he generously rearranged his teaching schedule to come out and play for us. I’m delighted to have him join our ‘friends making music for friends’ family.”
Pine is an active concert artist located in Indianapolis. His performances have been described as being “full of bravado and imagination, as well as an innate ability to communicate the great depths of musical emotion.”
He has performed within the Midwest and in Europe. Pime participated in the Classical Music Festival in Eisenstadt Austria, where he performed in the prestigious Haydnsaal and the Emperiesaal, both within the Esterhazy Palace. He received his Master’s Degree in piano performance from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music where he was the recipient of the prestigious Artistic Excellence Fellowship Award.
Additionally, Pine is sought out from all around Indiana as a private instructor of piano and has served as an adjunct faculty member at Anderson University School of Music.
Next week, virtuoso violinist and former ISO concertmaster Zachary DePue and violist Michael Strauss will be the GSMF featured performers. The full summer schedule is available at greencastlemusic.org.