Robert Schmidli is a regular pianist at Wesley and I've seen him playing elsewhere but it's a part-time thing. He's musically trained but otherwise a medical specialist. It's often the way and this time he was joined by flautist Liz Minkyung Kim who studied at the Univ of Cincinnati Con and has played with orchestras and ensembles in Seoul, Tokyo and Ukraine but is now taking a similar path, being in teh second year of her medical degree. So this was a medical encounter, maybe, but a serious musical performance. They played JS Bach Sonata for flute and keyboard Ebmaj BWV 1031 and at least the third movement was eminently recognisable. They other pieces were more obscure and all from the latter half of C19th, by Benjamin Godard, Paul Taffanel and Francoise Borne/George Bizet. The Taffanel was particularly interesting, being a piece written for flute testing purposes with all manner of skills on show. A capable display of a lesser heard combination, at least for me, flute and piano. Lovely.
Robert Schmidli (piano) accompanied Liz Minkyung Kim (flute) at Wesley.
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