Conservatory Faculty Recital: American Piano Music

Name: Conservatory Faculty Recital: American Piano Music
Start: 2025-03-16T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Bristol Chapel

Schedule

Sun, 16 Mar, 2025 at 03:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Bristol Chapel | Princeton, NJ

On Sunday, March 16 at 3:00 p.m. Westminster Conservatory faculty pianist Theodore Hendricks-Verdejo will perform a solo recital entitled American Piano Music. The recital will take place in Bristol Chapel and is open to the public free of charge.
The program includes music from North, Central, and South America, including Prelude & Caprice by George Walker (USA); Excursions by Samuel Barber (USA); Siempre, Danza for Piano by José Enrique Pedreira (Puerto Rico); Sonatina Rítmica by Roque Cordero (Panama); Danzón No. 2 by Arturo Márquez (Mexico); Summerland by William Grant Still (USA); and Sonata No. 1 by Alberto Ginastera (Argentina).
A native of Trenton, NJ Theodore Hendricks-Verdejo pursued his early piano studies with Josephine Hence. He later enrolled at Escuela Libre de Musica in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, where he studied with Isabelita Carrasquillo, Rosita Casanova, and Alicia Villar Sicardo. Following graduation from Escuela Libre de Musica, he attended the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore. At Peabody he earned bachelor and master of music degrees in piano performance as a pupil of Prof. Ellen Mack. Also while at Peabody he was a winner of the concerto competition. Mr. Hendricks-Verdejo undertook post-graduate studies at Temple University with world-renowned pianist Natalie Hinderas. He has also studied with harpsichordist Temple Painter in Philadelphia and pianist German Diez in New York. Mr. Hendricks-Verdejo has lectured on the piano etudes of Moritz Moszkowski and on music of Black composers.
Theodore Hendricks-Verdejo has performed in the continental USA, the Caribbean, and Japan, both in live performances and in radio and television broadcasts. In March of 2015 he presented J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations at Westminster Choir College in Princeton. He also performed the work in San Juan in 2018. Preceding his performance Mr. Hendricks-Verdejo offered a master class for Conservatory pianists, covering a wide range of repertoire. As part of Westminster Conservatory’s Beethoven Sonata project in commemoration of the composer’s 250th birthday, he performed Beethoven’s "Hammerklavier" Sonata in December of 2020. More recently Mr. Hendricks-Verdejo performed a piano recital at the Conservatorio de Música in San Juan, PR, in celebration of his seventh decade.
Formerly Mr. Hendricks was a music teacher in the Westfield, NJ School District. He currently teaches piano at Westminster Conservatory in Princeton, New Jersey.
The next event in the Westminster Conservatory Faculty Recital Series, featuring the Barton Lehrer Piano Duo, will take place in Bristol Chapel on Sunday, April 27 at 3:00 p.m.