Fredrik Wanger will offer a program of piano music of Mozart, Brahms, Chopin and Gershwin on Sunday, November 26, 2PM-3:30PM in the Druker Auditorium of the Newton Free Library. Admission is free.
Fredrik Wanger was educated at Oberlin College, Peabody Conservatory, the Vienna Academy (as a Fulbright scholar), and Boston University. He has performed at Town Hall and Carnegie Recital Hall in New York, Jordan Hall in Boston, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Palais de Beaux Arts in Brussels, and has toured Europe, Canada, and the United States. He performed with seven first-chair players of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and was a member of the Boston Fine Arts Chamber Ensemble. He was a member of the music faculty of Boston University and often performed with his wife Jane in duo- and four-hand piano recitals. He has been a member of the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement for several years and has taught courses there about Brahms, Mahler, and others.