Randall Love is so cool, he doesn't even need to tickle the ivories to play the piano.
If you happen to be strolling through Baldwin Auditorium tomorrow night and see a man blissfully plucking the strings of a piano instead of hammering its keys, it might be worthwhile to stop and listen. After all, Love is a rather accomplished pianist, and being an assistant professor of the practice in the music department, he can get away with stuff like that-and make it sound good.
Love has participated in such esteemed projects as the Boston Early Music Festival, which has been described as "this country's most prestigious forum for original-instrument performance" by the New York Times. He has recorded for the Titanic label and, in addition, has also recently recorded a version of Haydn's London Symphonies with the Capitol Chamber Artists of Albany, NY.
A graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory, Love received his M.A. from the New England Conservatory. He studied with Sanford Margolis, Patricia Zander and Edith Lateiner-Grosz, among others. Love's talent has won him many honors, which include being a finalist in both the Erwin Bodky Early Keyboard Competition in 1983 and the Jacques Vonk Prijs Piano Competition in Amsterdam in 1984.
-By Belinda Yu
Love's recital is Saturday, September 4th at 8 pm in Baldwin Auditorium on East Campus. For more information, see calendar, p.15.
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