Violin and Piano Duo in next Taylor Community Concert

LACONIA — The 2017 Taylor Concert Series continues with Pianist Paul Dykstra and Violinist Jesse MacDonald. Music will include the selections by Beethoven and Ernest Chausson. The event is Sunday, March 26, at 3 p.m. in Taylor Community's Woodside Building and is free and open to the public.

Dykstra hails from Edmonton, Alberta, where he studied at the University of Alberta under Helmut Brauss. He performed extensively in British Columbia and Alberta as a soloist and duo pianist, as a chamber music pianist and with orchestra. Since moving to the U.S. in 1999, he has continued to perform extensively as a soloist and duo pianist/chamber musician, in addition to teaching in his private studio in Portsmouth and at St. Paul's School in Concord.

MacDonald is an accomplished violinist, winning a variety of competitions, including the Montana Association of Symphony Orchestras Concerto Competition in the junior and senior Divisions. For 10 years he played fiddle with the Broken String Band, a contra dance and swing band, based out of Bozeman, MT. Active in the chamber music scene, he's performed with several quartets in both New York and Boston.

Jesse MacDonald

Paul Dykstra