One piano, two players: a hell of a holiday spectacle at Tassel in Holdrege | Local news

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Venkatesh and Schaumkell, who perform as the Vieness Piano Duo, will perform a holiday concert at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday at the Tassel in Holdrege.

Schaumkell has established a major international presence as a gold medalist at the 2018 James Ramos International Piano Competition. She has also received awards at the Coeur d’Alene Piano Competition, the Thürmer Piano Competition in Bochum, the Jugend Musiziert Competition , and is a recipient of the Carl Maria von Weber Scholarship, the Deutschlandstipendium, the Thornton Music Scholarship, as well as the Drosihn Prize.

The Herald-Tribune quotes Venkatesh for his “dazzling pianism, bordering on impossible and effortless technical mastery and authority with a sense of poetry and sophistication that belies his years.” He notes that a piano duo craves special demands.

“A piano duo is unlike any other musical combination of chamber music,” he said. “It takes a high degree of empathy, to be able to feel the music together as a unit. We amplify our mutual strengths without competing or hindering each other.

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Achieving these goals comes with practice, but it also requires another aspect: an intimate knowledge of each partner.

“It really helps to know that we are married,” Venkatesh said. “We can’t imagine playing piano duets at a high level with a stranger, or someone we didn’t get along with personally. It is unique in that the two performers share a single instrument.

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