Free I No ticket required

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Abigail Arkley Senior Piano Recital

Abigail Arkley, piano
Sahada Buckley, violin

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Program

3 Preludes for Piano      Elena Reuhr
I. Solitary Figure at Water’s Edge
II. Storm Approaches Land
III. Swing Set

Black Earth       Fazil Say

Intermission

Violin Sonata No. 1 Op. 78 in G Major      Johannes Brahms
I. Vivace ma non troppo
II. Adagio
III. Allegro Molto Moderato

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Abigail Arkley is a 21-year-old pianist from Minneapolis, MN, in the final year of her Bachelor of Music degree at UW-Madison pursuing Piano Performance under the tutelage of Prof. Christopher Taylor. Abigail has a strong passion for storytelling and the performance arts, collaborating frequently across genres and backgrounds all while celebrating her roots in the classical and instrumental idiom. Abigail has performed with the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra, on NPR’s From the Top radio broadcast in CA, is a Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Scholarship recipient and a winner of UW’s 2021 Beethoven Competition, and has given performances both at the Orpheum Theater in St Paul and in salon concerts in collaboration with The Schubert Club. In her spare time, Abigail seeks to facilitate inclusive community arts in Madison, coordinating concert programming with the Wisconsin Union Theater and putting on free community performance events that showcase a diverse variety of disciplines, cultures, backgrounds, and campus org collaborations, all while uplifting local artistic voices.