June 8th 2008 - Harpsichords for the Spoleto Festival USA
Anne will be supplying and preparing harpsichords for the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina.
June 8, 2008 | In TechnicianMay 30, 2008 - Presentation at American Musical Instrument Society annual meeting
Presentation at the annual meeting of the American Musical Instrument Society held at the Cantos Music Foundation, Calgary, Alberta ,Canada on the use of high speed video photography techniques for analysis of 18th and 19th century piano actions.
May 30, 2008 | In Lecture, PresentationMarch 12, 2008 - Solo Harpsichord Concert United Methodist Church, Skidaway Island, Georgia
A private evening of harpsichord works by Farnaby, Byrd, Purcell, Galuppi and Handel will be held as part of a concert series at the United Methodist Church on Skidaway Island just east of historic Savannah, Georgia.
March 12, 2007
6:45 p.m.
Skidaway Island United Methodist Church
54 Diamond Causeway, Savannah, GA 31411
Feb. 9, 2008, Concert with Ensemble Con Spirito, Savannah, Georgia
Anne will play harpsichord and piano for an extraordinary group of women singers, Ensemble Con Spirito. They will perform arrangements of songs by Benjamin Britten, Palestrina, Savonarola, Hildegard von Bingen, Lully and others.
For more information, including location, time and ticket purchase,
See: www.ensembleconspirito.org
Nov. 16 & 17th 2007, Harpsichord Solo
Harpsichord Soloist in Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 with the Savannah Sinfonietta
Nov. 16 and 17th, 2007, Savannah, Georgia, See website for time and location details: http://www.savannahorchestra.org
Complete Concert Program:
Masterworks III BACH, MOZART, O’CONNOR
BACH, Brandenburg No. 5
VIVALDI, Winter Concerto Op. 8
O’CONNOR, ‘Summer’ From American Seasons
MOZART, Symphony No. 40 in G Minor
June 20-24, 2007 Piano Technicians Guild National Convention Appearances
At the 50th Annual Piano Technicians Guild Convention in Kansas City
Anne joins a select panel of other conservators and specialists in antique keyboard instruments to examine the state, treatment, and future of antique pianos.
June 20, 2007 | In LectureMay 20, 2007 Music for an 18th Century Drawing Room
May 20, 2007, 4 p.m. Savannah College of Art and Design, Kiah Hall, Martin Luther King Blvd, Savannah, Georgia
Anne will play harpsichord and fortepiano, and discuss musical life in private homes in England and the colonies in the 18th century, in an afternoon program for the English Speaking Union, Savannah, Georgia Chapter.
English Speaking Union website
Review from the ESU website
Our own Anne Acker was the speaker and performer for our meeting this month. To see Anne, one would hardly expect to see her moving pianos and other heavy musical instruments about, but that was exactly what she does for a living. Anne brought a Piano Forte and a Harpsichord to the meeting with her.
After our president Barbara O. Smith introduced her, Anne answered a few interesting questions about the instruments that she brought with her. These were beautiful pieces of woodworking craft that were either built or restored by Anne at her shop. Anne then began the meeting with what everyone present agreed was a stunningly beautiful demonstration of each instruments capability. It was actually more than that. It was a wonderful concert presented for our pleasure. Everyone sat spellbound while listening and watching Anne’s nimble fingers dance across the keyboards of the two instruments as she performed music by famed composers of the time. For a short time we could get the feeling of being back in the 18th century listening to a typical performance of the time. No one would have believed that just a month before, she had to postpone this performance due to a severely injured hand.
Anne, thanks a million for a wonderful meeting.
May 20, 2007 | In Lecture, Performance
March 29, 2007 Savannah Music Festival
Savannah Music Festival, Savannah, Georgia, 12:30 p.m. on March 29, 2007 at the Unitarian Universalist Church on Troup Square. http://savannahmusicfestival.org
Georgian On My Mind Anne plays a recital on harpsichord and fortepiano, and discuss on keyboards and music in Georgia, 1760-1820. Sponsored by the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and the Savannah Morning News.
March 29, 2007 | In Lecture, PerformanceWinter, 2006 Keyboard Music from the Federal Period of Georgia
Keyboard Music from the Federal Period of Georgia, Georgia Music Hall of Fame, Macon, Georgia, performed on an authentic early piano restored by Anne.
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November, 2006 Recital / Lecture on Federal Era Music in Georgia
Recital / Lecture on Federal Era Music in Georgia. Details tba.
Georgia Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Macon, Georgia
November 4, 2006 | In Lecture, Performance