Free Pre-Concert Talks

Friday 11 October - Brecon Cathedral 6.50pm

Saturday 12 October - Theatr Brycheiniog 6.15pm and 6.45pm

We are delighted to welcome Dr Keith Chapin (Cardiff University, School of Music) to give our pre-concert talks this year.

Dr Keith Chapin is Senior Lecturer in Music at Cardiff University. From Alaska originally, he studied at Yale University (BA), Yale School of Music (MMus, viola performance), and Stanford University (PhD, musicology). Before moving to Wales in 2011, he lectured at Fordham University (New York) and the New Zealand School of Music (Wellington). He is currently at work on a book on music and the sublime in the long eighteenth century, and has published on the aesthetics of counterpoint and of classicism, on composers such as Telemann, C. P. E. Bach, and Beethoven, and on intersections between literature and music, especially around E. T. A. Hoffmann. He is an active violist, has learned Welsh, and is an avid runner and walker on the hills and along the canals of the Bannau Brycheiniog.