Piano Duo Polyhymnia
Eric and Catherine perform solo/duet/duo with commentary regularly around the Bay Area. *more*
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Excerpts from live performance, June, 2006
Eric and Catherine Thompson

As Piano Duo Polyhymnia,

Eric and Catherine perform regularly around the Bay Area, solo and duet (4 hands, 1 piano), or solo and duo (4 hands, 2 pianos).




Our popular "Music and Wine Series"

takes place in our own home.  Our next Music and Wine recital is set for August 19-20 (7:30 PM Saturday, 3:30 PM Sunday).
We will perforn an ALL Mozart program, in honor of W. A. Mozart's 250th Birthday
(kind of turning in the assignment in the last hour, so to speak).

"Music and Wine" in November will feature music entirely by French composers.
Future plans include a Hungarian music recital,
and a romantic two-piano recital (yes, in our home).
Check back here for updates.

Please click **HERE** to see past programs.



Piano Duo Polyhymnia performs typically twice each year at Los Medanos College where Catherine is engaged as staff accompanist and is a teacher on faculty.

We plan a repeat performance this fall at LMC of the blockbuster program
we just gave at the Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek.
When: Sunday, Sept. 17, 2006
3 PM

Accompaniment work is always considered. Please feel free to contact us.


"Eric Thompson and his wife Catherine Thompson are a pair of virtuoso pianists whose duo-piano gems are destined to bring them increasing fame." -- Joyce Rosenfield, Curtis Institute graduate, concert harpist

"Seriousness about the music is not only evident in the couple’s masterful playing but also in their knowledge of the pieces they are presenting." -- Tim Rios, The Brentwood Press


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The Blockbuster Recital
A short excerpt of each of these pieces is contained, in order, in the video clip at the top of this page.
The Music
Composer
Performer
Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 532 J.S. Bach - F. Busoni
Eric
Variations Serieuses, Op. 54 F. Mendelssohn
Catherine
All'Italia
F. Busoni
Eric
L'isle joyeuse
C. Debussy
Catherine
Six Epigraphes Antiques
C. Debussy
PDP duet
Fantasy in F Minor, Op. 103
F. Schubert
PDP duet
Allegro Brillant, Op. 92
F. Mendelssohn
PDP duet











Hungarian Recital (Music and Wine Series)
This recital is still being planned.
The Music
Composer
Performer
Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2 in C-sharp Minor
F. Liszt
Catherine
Hungarian Rhapsody no. 12 in C-sharp Minor
F. Liszt
Eric
Hungarian Divertimento, Op. 54
F. Schubert
PDP duet
Hungarian Dances, Books 1 and 2
J. Brahms
PDP duet











French Kiss Recital (Music and Wine Series)
This recital is still being planned.
The Music
Composer
Performer
still working on this
Couperin
Eric
still working on this
Rameau
Catherine
Sonatine
M. Ravel
Eric
Selected Preludes
C. Debussy
Catherine
Dolly Suite
Faure
PDP duet
Scaramouche
D. Milhaud
PDP duo











Romantic 2-Piano Recital (Music and Wine Series)
This recital is tentatively scheduled for February of 2007.
The Music
Composer
Performer
Variations on a Theme by Beethoven, Op. 35
C. Saint-Saëns
PDP duo
Concerto Pathetique in E Minor
F. Liszt
PDP duo
Suite no. 2, Op. 17
S. Rachmaninoff
PDP duo











All Mozart Program

better late than never . . . Hey!  It's still 2006!  Leave me alone!
The Music Composer Performer
Adagio in B Minor, K. 540
W. A. Mozart
Eric
Rondo in A Minor, K 511
W. A. Mozart Catherine
Sonata in F Major, K. 497
W. A. Mozart PDP duet
Sonata in D Major, K. 448
(for 2 pianos)
W. A. Mozart PDP duo