New Music Guild offers 2 concerts by piano, flute duo

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

The New Music Guild will present free concerts by Amy Williams and Lindsey Goodman at 4 p.m. Sunday at Sts. Peter and Paul Church (Holy Apostles Parish), 421 Covington St., and at 12:15 p.m. Jan. 28 at the Butler Institute of American Art.

Williams is a composer and pianist and a music professor at the University of Pittsburgh.

Goodman is a Youngstown native and a flutist with the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble. She studied under Kathryn Umble of the Dana School of Music.

Born to professional musician parents, Williams began piano study at age 4.

After graduating from Bennington College and spending a year on fellowship in Denmark, she returned home to Buffalo, N.Y., for her master’s and doctorate degrees.

She has taught at Bennington and Northwestern University, and is currently a professor of composition and theory and director of the graduate program at the University of Pittsburgh.

Williams’ works have been performed in Europe, Canada, the United States and Brazil, and she has made several commercial recordings.

In addition to her extensive solo work, Williams performs in the Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo with Helena Bugallo. The duo has performed at festivals in the United States, Europe, Mexico and South America, and released a CD on the prestigious Wergo label in Germany.

Williams has received a number of awards and grants in the Unites States and in Europe. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Manfred Honeck, premiered her latest work, “Flood Lines,” last February.

Like Williams, Goodman is a new and experimental music specialist who has frequently performed as soloist with professional ensembles.

She is also on high demand as chamber collaborator, orchestral musician, teacher and clinician, and she is in her 14th season as solo flutist with the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble.

Goodman will perform Pittsburgh composer Roger Zahab’s “Suspicion of Nakedness” and “Armory of the Heart,” and Judith Shatin’s “Penelope’s Song” for flute and electronics.

The two musicians will play Williams’ “First Lines” for flute and piano.

Williams will play a solo piano work, and present Youngstown composer Robert Rollin’s “Night Thoughts II,” a piece inspired by the manuscript illuminations of William Blake. A few surprises by local musicians also will be included.

A reception will follow Sunday’s concert at Sts. Peter and Paul Church, sponsored by New Music Guild.