{"id":3822,"date":"2014-01-21T17:12:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T21:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=3822"},"modified":"2022-03-24T11:20:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T15:20:58","slug":"piano-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/piano-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Piano Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3823\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3823\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/01\/ortensen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3823 size-full\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/01\/ortensen.jpg\" alt=\"Cedarville University Professor John Mortensen at a piano\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/01\/ortensen.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/01\/ortensen-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3823\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Mortensen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>John Mortensen, pianist and professor of music at Cedarville University, will present a concert at Kalamazoo College on Thursday, January 30. The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The concert will feature Mortensen\u2019s original improvisations of works by Domenico Scarlatti (Sonatas), Robert Schumann (selections from Davidsb\u00fcndlert\u00e4nze), Sergei Rachmaninoff (Selected Preludes), and Astor Piazzolla (Tangos). The concert begins at 7:30 P.M. in Dalton Theatre in K\u2019s Light Fine Arts Building.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the concert, Mortensen will teach a master class culminating in performances by K students. Those performances will occur at 4 PM on January 30 in Dalton Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his work as a concert pianist, composer, and teacher, Mortensen performs and teaches Irish and American roots music, playing mandolin, octave mandolin, Irish flute, Irish button accordion, five-string banjo, Uilleann pipes, and Irish whistle. He leads The Demerits, Cedarville University\u2019s premier roots ensemble, and he created America\u2019s only college-level traditional Irish music session class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Mortensen, pianist and professor of music at Cedarville University, will present a concert at Kalamazoo College on Thursday, January 30. The event is free and open to the public. 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The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The concert will feature Mortensen\u2019s original improvisations of works by Domenico Scarlatti (Sonatas), Robert Schumann (selections from Davidsb\u00fcndlert\u00e4nze), Sergei Rachmaninoff (Selected Preludes), and Astor Piazzolla (Tangos). The concert begins at 7:30 P.M. in Dalton Theatre in K\u2019s Light Fine Arts Building.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the concert, Mortensen will teach a master class culminating in performances by K students. Those performances will occur at 4 PM on January 30 in Dalton Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his work as a concert pianist, composer, and teacher, Mortensen performs and teaches Irish and American roots music, playing mandolin, octave mandolin, Irish flute, Irish button accordion, five-string banjo, Uilleann pipes, and Irish whistle. He leads The Demerits, Cedarville University\u2019s premier roots ensemble, and he created America\u2019s only college-level traditional Irish music session class.<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3822"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9778,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822\/revisions\/9778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3822"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=3822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}