On Sunday, June 29, an enthusiastic audience heard an exceptional recital given by gifted young pianist Sergio Parra, who last year received a scholarship from both Viva la Música and the Northern Lights Festival.
Currently taking classes from Professor Anatoli Zatin in Colima, Parra will soon begin a master’s program in composition at the University of Illinois.
Parra opened the Viva la Música recital with “Toccata in G major BWV 916�? by Johann Sebastian Bach, one of his Baroque pieces which unusually, influenced by his interest in Italian composers at the time, is in concerto, three-part form, rather than the the more conventional German four.