The Western Early Keyboard Association Presents
Exquisite French: The Couperins and Duphly
with Kathy Perl
A Live Recital
Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 2pm, Reed College, Portland Oregon
Also Available Online
Premiere Saturday, March 19, 2022 at 2pm on the WEKA YouTube Channel
Explore masterpieces of French harpsichord music with Kathy Perl, an artist well-known in the west and to WEKA members. Ms. Perl will perform works by Louis Couperin, François Couperin and Jacques Duphly and talk about what makes French music unique and special for harpsichordists to play.
See the Program here.
Join us for the YouTube Premiere!
Watch this recital with us on YouTube, Saturday, March 19, 2022 at 2pm. You’ll be able to live chat with others during the performance.
About Live Performances at Reed College
Be prepared, masks, proof of vaccination and distancing are required at Reed College by all those attending. The recital is held in the Performing Arts Building, room 320. Directions
Free to WEKA members and to Reed College faculty, students and staff.
$20 general admission – $10 student admission
About Kathy Perl
Katherine Roberts Perl was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1949. She has played the harpsichord most of her life, switching instruments from piano at the age of thirteen. Coming of age during the 60s and 70s, her early music awareness happened to coincide with the revival of period instrument performance and practice. In the mid-seventies, she built herself a Zuckermann French double harpsichord from a kit designed by William Hyman, based on historical principles. Following its successful completion, Ms.Perl moved to San Francisco in 1977 to pursue an intensive course of study with Laurette Goldberg, culminating in a Masters diploma with a specialty in harpsichord performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
A highly sought after teacher and recitalist, Ms. Perl has made several critically acclaimed recordings. Her first, Pièces de Clavecin, Music of Louis Couperin (Koch International Classics), was nominated for an award by Les Victoires de la Musique Classique in Paris, France, for Best Baroque Recording of French Music in 1993. Her second recording, Music of Jacques Duphly (Dorian), was released in 1998, followed by four of Bach’s French Suites in the same year. In 2007-8, she recorded The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, on three discs and in 2013 she recorded Wandering Shades (Les Ombres Errantes) The final harpsichord works of Francois Couperin.
