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WSU faculty featured in ‘Mozart Recomposed’

Karen and Jeff Savage
Karen and Jeff Savage

WSU School of Music faculty members Karen and Jeff Savage, also known as 88 Squared, discussed their work with prominent contemporary composer Lowell Liebermann on the National Public Radio program New Music from Bowling Green.

The now-married piano duo met while they were students at the Juilliard School, which is where they also met Liebermann. In 2015, 88 Squared recorded all of the composer’s works for two pianos, including a sonata that they commissioned. » More …

Feb. 2, 5, 9: Faculty concerts support scholarships

Music faculty at Washington State University will perform three concerts in the next two weeks that support the School of Music scholarship fund.

Performances in the Faculty Artist Series are free to WSU students with ID and cost $10 general admission and $5 for senior citizens and non-WSU students. Tickets will be available in the lobby 30 minutes before each concert. » More …

Faculty piano duo tours, to record for top composer

Karen and Jeffrey Savage
Karen and Jeffrey Savage

WSU School of Music faculty members Jeffrey and Karen Savage have been tapped by American composer Lowell Liebermann to record his complete works for two pianos this summer for a commercially released CD.

The duo, which performs as 88 Squared, recently completed a concert tour in Singapore, presenting the Asian premieres of several works, including Liebermann’s Sonata for Two Pianos.

“The finale was a double fugue on a perpetual motion theme that seemed almost impossible to play,” wrote Singapore’s national daily newspaper in a review. “In these secure hands, impossibility became not just reality, but totally pleasing music.

More about the work of 88 Squared