Saturday, October 4, 2025 – 7pm
Reed College, Eliot Hall Chapel – Campus Map
Online Video Premiere –Saturday, October 18, 2024 – 2pm on the WEKA YouTube Channel
Visiting from Spain, our special guest, Yago Mahúgo will perform an exciting program of works by François Couperin, Louis Couperin, Armand Louis Couperin, Georg Friedrich Händel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Soler, Domenico Scarlatti, and Pancrace Royer.
Admission
Free to WEKA members
Student Admission – Free to 18 and under and college students with ID
Regular Admission $25 – Payable at the door with cash or check
Admission is included in the registration fee for those attending the Historical Keyboards Conference, October 4, 2025, 9:30am-5pm
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Chosen as the best Spanish artist of the year 2013 by the prestigious music critic Ruben Amón (El Mundo), and performer of one of the best recordings of the year 2013 (El País), Madrid-born Yago Mahúgo, one of the most important Spanish musicians in the field of historically informed performance, began his piano studies with Prof. Ana Guijarro in Seville. After obtaining his degree in piano performance, he pursued postgraduate studies at the Hochschule für Musik, Freiburg (Germany) with Prof. Tibor Szász. There he was introduced to period instruments and became a disciple of Prof. Dr. Robert Hill. Under Hill’s tutelage, he achieved the Degree in Historical Keyboard Instruments (Harpsichord, Fortepiano, and Organ) and the MA in Harpsichord and Fortepiano.
In 2016, Mahúgo earned a Ph.D. of Arts cum laude from the Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid, with the distinction of being awarded a special University prize for the best dissertation. He has also studied privately with the well-known keyboardists Christophe Rousset and Malcolm Bilson.
Mahúgo has been honored with several prizes at international competitions, including the35th International Harpsichord Competition in Budapest, and the 13th Bruges Harpsichord Competition (Belgium), the latter considered to be one of the most important competitions in the field of early music. His concert activities have led him to the most prestigious concert halls in Europe, North and South America, including his debut in February 2017 at the Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, and the recent appearance of his baroque ensemble, Impetus Madrid, at the Frick Collection Concert Series in New York City.
Mahúgo has taught harpsichord and historical performance practice at the Badajoz Superior Conservatory (Spain) and continues to teach and give lectures on these subjects in Spain and abroad (Albacete Conservatory, Barcelona Liceu Superior Conservatory, University of Michigan). Mahùgo holds a full professorship at the Royal Conservatory of Madrid and serves as a representative in the Madrid Regional Assembly.
Mahùgo recently signed a contract with Brilliant Classics to record a 3-CD set of French harpsichord music, and with Cantus Records he is slated to record the complete works of François Couperin, a set that will eventually number eleven CDs.