Twin musicians Peter and Will Anderson to perform in Hart April 14

Twin musicians Peter and Will Anderson to perform in Hart April 14

The concert is the second to the last of the Hart Community Performing Arts Series 2022-23 season

HART — The Hart Community Performing Arts Series will continue its 2022-23 season with a concert featuring the Peter and Will Anderson Trio Friday, April 14, at 7:30 p.m. in the Hart Public Schools Auditorium, located in the Hart Middle School.  

Peter and Will Anderson will be joined by Dalton Ridenour on piano.

The concert will feature the music of the great American composer, Irving Berlin, including favorites such as “Blue Skies,” “Putting on the Ritz,” “Cheek to Cheek,” and “What’ll I Do?”

Hailed as “virtuosos on clarinet and saxophone,” by the New York Times, identical twins have performed concerts together since the age of 9. They graduated from Juilliard and performed on Broadway, at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, live on Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion, and can be heard on the Grammy winning Soundcheck of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire.  

The brothers have produced and starred in eight sold out off-broadway productions at 59E59 Theaters, receiving a Drama Desk Nomination for “Le Jazz Hot” in 2012. Aside from leading performances in 45 U.S. States, Japan, Brazil, Canada and the United Kingdom, they’ve lectured at over a dozen universities. including Florida State, Xavier, Temple, and Ohio State. 

A native of St. James, Missouri, pianist Ridenhour performed at the Scott Joplin International Ragtime Festival at the age of 9. For the next eight years, he was a featured performer at music festivals around the country, and was selected as a member of the 2000 Grammy High School Jazz Ensemble. Ridenhour furthered his education at the Berklee College of Music and Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Harold Danko. Dalton resides in New York City where he performs regularly with numerous traditional jazz, indie rock, country and funk bands. 

Tickets for the concert are $15 at the door. 

The series will conclude the 2022-2023 season with a performance by the world-renowned Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, May 1.

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