The next event in the Wayland Concert Series is Friday March 7 at 8:00 pm on the Main Stage at Wayland High School.

Originally from Vancouver, Vicky Chow made her orchestral debut at the age of 10 with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. She studied at The Juilliard School with Yoheved Kaplinsky and Julian Martin and at Manhattan School of Music with Christopher Oldfather. Ms. Chow is currently touring in Moscow with the Bang on a Can All-Stars. On her return, the New York-based Chow will present a morning seminar for pianists at the New England Conservatory before coming to Wayland for the evening concert.

The masterful pianist will introduce us to a sampling of works from the contemporary repertoire – by turns meditative, precise, obsessive, mesmerizing, and playful.

Steve Reich: Piano Counterpoint
Ryan Francis: Wind-up Bird Preludes
Donnacha Dennehy: Stainless Staining

Piano Counterpoint is an arrangement of Six Pianos for solo pianist and tape. Of Six Pianos, Steve Reich says, “it grew out of the idea I had to do a piece for all the pianos in a piano store.”

Stainless Staining is a piece by Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy, who was recently appointed a Global Scholar at Princeton University. Commissioned by pianist Lisa Moore with funds provided by the Arts Council of Ireland, Stainless Staining was written for piano and soundtrack.

Of his composition Wind-Up Bird Preludes, Ryan Francis says, “[It] engages in some pretty head-spinning musical and literary referencing. The title of the set comes from Haruki Murakami’s massive novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Murakami’s novel itself is divided into three separately published parts, each named after classical pieces, respectively Rossini’s The Thieving Magpie, Schumann’s Bird as Prophet and “Birdcatcher” in reference to Mozart’s The Magic Flute.

The concert is free and open to all. No tickets are required. For more information, visit waylandconcerts.org or call 508-358-2667.