Friday, Jul 18, 2025 at 7:00pm
Schedule Of Events
7:00PM : Chicago Duo Piano Festival - Duo Turgeon
Join the critically acclaimed Duo Turgeon for a sparkling duo piano program. Regarded as one of the top piano duos of our time, the Turgeons have given hundreds of performances, including their European debut at the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam and New York debut at Weill Recital Hall.
Duo Turgeon will perform works by Brahms, Dvorák, Debussy, and Rachmaninoff and “Winter at Gros Cap” by Anne Louise-Turgeon.
About Anne Louise-Turgeon and Edward Turgeon
Born in Montreal and Toronto respectively, Canadian pianists Anne Louise-Turgeon and Edward Turgeon have been playing together since 1988, and performing professionally since 1996. Critically acclaimed as one of the top piano duos of our time, the Turgeons have given hundreds of performances, including a European debut at the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, and a New York debut at Weill Recital Hall. Festival appearances include Sanibel Chamber Music, San Francisco International Chamber Music, Montreal International Duo Piano, Duettissimo (Minsk), and Novosibirsk International Duo Piano, among others.
The Turgeons appear on seven compact discs, and they have been heard in numerous broadcasts on classical music stations throughout the world including National Public Radio's Performance Today, BBC, ABC, WNYC, WPR, MPR, WGBH, Dutch Public Radio, and numerous CBC programs.
The Turgeon’s prizes and awards include first prize in the Sixth International Schubert Competition for Piano Duos (Czech Republic, 1995) and first prize in the prestigious Murray Dranoff International Two Piano Competition (Miami, 1997).
The Turgeons are graduates of the University of Toronto and Yale University, where they earned doctorate degrees in the year 2000. They received the highest graduating awards and prizes from both institutions. Anne's teachers included Marietta Orlov, Boris Berman, Karl Heinz Kammerling, Marek Jablonski, Claude Frank and John O'Connor. Edward's teachers included James Anagnoson, Peter Frankl,Donald Currier and Claude Frank. Duo Turgeon received duo piano, and one piano, four-hand coaching from James Anagnoson, Karl Ulrich Schnabel and Peter Serkin.
The Turgeons have served on the faculties of Algoma University College, Algoma Conservatory, Mount Holyoke College, the HARID Conservatory and Florida Atlantic University. They currently serve as keyboard faculty and ensemble-in-residence at Florida Atlantic University’s Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, School of the Arts, in Boca Raton.
Cost : General Admission: $30
