Summer Music Festival at Gobin continues with Chilean pianist

Eugenio Urrutia-Borlando

The award-winning virtuoso Chilean pianist Eugenio Urrutia-Borlando performs music by Franz Liszt and Ludwig van Beethoven in Wednesday's 7:30 p.m. Greencastle Summer Music Festival concert at Gobin United Methodist Church.

Weekly free programs are sponsored by local individuals, businesses including the Inn at DePauw, and an endowment at the Putnam County Community Foundation.

"Bringing the community together with friends making music for friends" is the motto of the festival, now in its 12th season. "We had over 200 people at last week's opening event with Bobbie Lancaster and Tad Robinson," said founding artistic director and DePauw music professor Eric Edberg. "We have our widest array of music ever this summer, with blues and pop, classical music, folk singers, and several concerts featuring music from around the world.

"Eugenio has played almost every summer since we started in 2005. He's definitely part of our community of musical summer friends. I'm thrilled to have him back, this year performing the Liszt B Minor Sonata and Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' Sonata."

Award-winning pianist Eugenio Urrutia-Borlando made his concert debut with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Concepcion at age 11 and the following year won the Claudio Arrau International Piano Competition and Concurso Jovenes Talentos.

He has performed with the National Youth Symphony Orchestra of Chile, the New Millennium Orchestra of Indianapolis, the Akron Youth Orchestra, LaGrange Symphony (Ga.), Orquesta Sinfonica de Concepcion, Orquesta Clasica de Santiago (USACH), the Akron Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Chamber, Orchestra Die NordwestDeutsche Philarmonie, Germany, and the ProArte Chamber Orchestra of Indianapolis, collaborating with conductors Wilfried Junge, Luis Urrutia, Patricio Cobos, Kypros Marcou, Toshiyuki Kamioka, Luis Gorelik, Mathew Kraemer and Stanley DeRusha.

As a recitalist and chamber musician, Urrutia has performed an extensive repertoire in South America, the United States, Germany and Russia collaborating with violinists Alexander Kerr and Laurie Carney, cellists William Grubb, and Andres Diaz, violists Roberto Diaz and Csaba Erdelyi, bandoneonist Pietro Antonio Soave and clarinetist Frank Glover.

The festival continues next week on Wednesday, June 15 with DePauw School of Music faculty members Tarn Travers (violin) and Eric Edberg (cello). More information is available at greencastlemusic.org.

The Greencastle Summer Music Festival brings the community together with friends making music for friends every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. through Aug. 17 in the sanctuary of Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church.

There will be additional performances on Friday, June 17 at Music on the Square and Tuesday-Saturday, June 21-25 there will be a Silk Road Ensemble event every night in Kresge Auditorium at DePauw.