Lucas Porter and David Potvin are both renowned concert pianists who grew up in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley. Both are coming home to perform as part of the Sunday Music in the Garden Room series at Acadia University in Wolfville. Read all about Porte...
Concert pianists David Potvin, formerly of Billtown, and Port Williams native Lucas Porter return to the Annapolis Valley in October to perform as part of the Sunday Music in the Garden Room series at Acadia University’s K.C. Irving Environmental Science Centre. CONTRIBUTEDWOLFVILLE, N.S. — Coming home to perform is a special experience for two concert pianists raised in the Annapolis Valley who have made national and international impacts with their music.
Porter began playing piano when he was six years old, under the tutelage of Kurt van der Basch. Many referred to him as a child prodigy, but Porter said this didn’t have much of an impact on him growing up. Lucas Porter during a March 2015 concert in the Garden Room at Acadia University’s K.C. Irving Environmental Science Centre in Wolfville. Porter returns to perform as part of the Sunday Music in the Garden Room series on Oct. 2. CONTRIBUTEDPorter said he loves composing music, and improvising. One piece that is closely connected to his home community is the Port Williams Overture, which Porter composed at age 16 for the Notion International Composing Competition.
Natasha Gauthier of the Ottawa Citizen has heralded Porter as “a young lion of the keyboard” with “staggering virtuosity and some of the old-school pyrotechnics and unabashed romanticism of early 20th-century legends like Moiseiwitsch or even Sofronitsky.” His Oct. 16 concert at Acadia is the first in a fall tour he is undertaking as the 2022 Eckhardt-Gramatté winner. Potvin will be performing a program of all-Canadian contemporary repertoire.
“I’m just really looking forward to sharing what I’ve been working on with people who are from an area that is still very close to my heart,” Potvin said.
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