The Villages Philharmonic Orchestra

FREE CONCERT

Thursday, February 9th, 2023

3pm-5pm

88 keys project at the Sharon Theatre Lobby Lounge

Dear friends and supporters of The Villages Philharmonic, it is with a great pleasure that I send you all this message to announce our second 88 Keys Project FREE concert in The Sharon L Morse Performing Art Center lobby.

This event is scheduled February 9th to start at 3:00 pm in the Sharon Theatre Lobby and is free admission. For this concert, we feature two extraordinary pianists who will perform masterpieces from the classic piano repertoire.  

I would like to give special thanks to The Music Gallery, Steinway & Sons of Tampa Bay who with great enthusiasm have partnered with the VPO for this fundraising for the Steinway D Grand Piano.

Musically yours

Pasquale Valerio

In 2003, I had the great honor of being named Steinway Artist. I was asked then to provide a statement reflecting how I felt about Steinway pianos. Here is what I wrote: “A Steinway piano is a miracle: put your hands on it, and you'll hear the voice of your soul.” Twenty years, hundreds of performances, countless practice sessions and rehearsals later, my love of Steinways has even deepened. As musicians, we vehicle our emotions, our interpretations of the greatest masterpieces, through sound. No piano has a better, richer, more nuanced, more colorful sound than a Steinway D. I know that, for any institution, to acquire one is to enrich their artistic offerings manifold, greatly enhancing the musical life of the entire community. In truth, any musical institution should own a Steinway Concert Grand. A Steinway D is a dream come true for performers and audiences alike.

Antonio Pompa Baldi

Artists Performing

Zoya Shuhatovich is an International Concert Pianist, Steinway Artist. She received her M.M and DMA at the Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod) State Concervatory, Russia under the tutelage of the highly regarded professor Ilja Fridman, student of the legendary Heinrich Neuhaus.

She immigrated to the US, Houston in 1993, where she currently resides. Zoya worked at the Moore’s School of Music, University of Houston from 1994 to 2002. She performs extensively in Europe: UK, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Germany, Poland, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Estonia.

Francesco Maria Navelli was born in 2003 in a family of musicians. He began studying the piano very early. At the age of 13 he was admitted to the International Piano Academy "Incontri

col Maestro" in Imola with Professor Leonid Margarius. At the age of 18 he graduated with honors from the "G.Martucci" Conservatory of Music in Salerno. At the age of 19, he was

selected by Professor Benedetto Lupo as a student at the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome.

Live in February 14th at The Sharon Theater