With pianists, Rollin Wilber, Kasia Marzec-Salwinski, and baritone/narrator Robert Edwin

In a delightful and sophisticated program of musical reminiscence and poetic affections, are sounds to rouse our thoughts and feelings about childhood and the caring for our children.

Program notes

Variations for piano on “Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman”
– by WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

Six Songs to poems of Eugene Field
– by ROLLIN WILBER

Selections from “Fairy Tales”
– by NIKOLAI MEDTNER

“Dolly Suite” for four-hand piano
– by GABRIEL FAURE

“The Baby’s Family” Suite #1
– by HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS

Selections from “Children’s Games” for piano four-hand
– by GEORGE BIZET

Suggested Donation $20.

Fine Art Music Company (FAM) brings together exceptional local musicians and listeners through creative concert programming held in the intimacy of smaller halls and salons. We feel the potency and depth of classical music is best experienced in settings that bring audience and musicians nearer one another.

Kasia Marzec-Salwinski, piano

International recitalist and chamber musician with appearances across Europe, the United States, the Middle East, and Japan, including Carnegie Hall. Co-founder and Artistic Director of Fine Art Music Company. DMA, Temple University. Affiliate Artist at Haverford College.

Rollin Wilber, piano

Philadelphia-based pianist, teacher, and composer who grew up in a family of professional musicians in the New York City area. He began piano at eight, and later studied with Maryan Filar at Temple University. He has performed recitals and concerto solos for over forty years and created narrative recital projects such as Stories in Concert and the Art of Listening seminars, which debuted at Chautauqua in 2000. In 2010 he co-founded Fine Art Music Company to present intimate, audience-engaged concerts, developing series at Ivy Hall and, since 2014, directing a concert series at the Philadelphia Ethical Society in collaboration with FAM.

Robert Edwin, vocals

Robert Edwin has been a professional singer and actor since 1965, a recording artist since 1966, an ASCAP songwriter since 1967, a published author since 1968, and an independent studio singing teacher since 1975. He has sung Bach cantatas in church cathedrals and rock songs in intimate coffeehouses. His previous appearance with the Fine Art Music Company as music critic “Gerhard Denhoff” in their War of the Romantics concert series was one of his favorite roles. For more: www.robertedwinstudio.com