A Mid-Week event of the 2024 William Byrd Festival
Wednesday, August 7, 2024 – 7:30pm
St. Michael & All Angels Church – 1704 NE 43rd Ave, Portland
Online Video Premiere – Saturday, August 24, 2024 – 2pm on the WEKA YouTube Channel
A contemporary ode to William Byrd reads: “None suche I feare shall rise that may be calde his sonne.” Besides his monumental choral output, William Byrd was also widely renowned in his time for his role in the development of a uniquely English style of keyboard music, one that was abandoned in the decades after his death.
Harpsichordist Eugene Petrushansky explores the music of Byrd, his immediate antecedents, his late 17th-century successors, and the 20th-century resurgence of interest in the old repertoire.
Eugene S. Petrushansky (born 1985, Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia) studied harpsichord at the University of California with Davitt Moroney and Katherine Heater while pursuing a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering, with subsequent instruction in the form of masterclasses and private lessons with Arthur Haas, Alan Curtis, Jacques Ogg, James Johnstone, Bertrand Cuiller, and Ed Parmentier. Residing in Fremont, California, he has appeared around the San Francisco Bay Area in solo recitals and as continuo harpsichordist with professional ensembles. He serves as Organist at St Joseph of Arimathea Chapel in Berkeley and at St Francis of Assisi in Livermore and is a member of the board of directors for MusicSources. He also maintains an atelier for restoration of historical keyboard instruments.
General Admission $20 payable at the door
Free to 18 and under, and college students with ID