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September 16th, 2025 - Tuesday
Danny Holt: Musical Quotations, Tributes, & Transformations
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The Machias Bay Chamber Concerts winds up its Festival of Piano with Danny Holt: Musical Quotations, Tributes, & Transformations highlights the creative and playful ways that composers borrow from one another, including Godowsky's inventive and virtuosic re-working of Chopin etudes, Heller’s transcription of Schubert’s beloved “Erlkönig”, Crumb’s dream-like meditation on Chopin, Satie’s playful parody of Clementi, jazz/pop phenom Jon Batiste's take on the classics, and more.
Called “phenomenal” by the late music critic Alan Rich, and "exceptional" by The Los Angeles Times, pianist Danny Holt brings his boundless energy and wit to unique interpretations of new music, 20th-century music, and obscure, unusual, and neglected repertoire from past centuries. He performs around the globe in concert halls, clubs, art galleries, churches, living rooms, and wherever else he can find a piano and someone to listen; and his recorded catalog includes the recent solo album “Piano Music of Mike Garson” and other solo, chamber, and orchestral releases on the Innova Recordings label, pfMENTUM, New World Records, Deutsche Grammophon, Acis Productions, and L’st records. After spending most of the past two decades in Southern California, Holt recently relocated to East Machias, where he enjoys being surrounded by natural beauty and the many joys of small town life in Downeast Maine. www.dannyholt.net
