Todd Decker, Faculty Recital, harpsichord
Program:
Sonatas in F by Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
K. 383: Andante Commodo
K. 384: Allegro
Prelude, Fugue, and Allegro in E-flat Major (for lute or keyboard), BWV 998 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Sonatas in C by D. Scarlatti
K. 366: Allegro
K. 367: Allegro
Toccata in C minor, BWV 911 by J. S. Bach
Sonatas in D by D. Scarlatti
K. 362: Presto
K. 363: Fuga, Allegro Moderato
Todd Decker is the Paul Tietjens Professor of Music at Washington University. He holds a Master's in Harpsichord Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and has studied with Edward Parmentier, Laurette Goldberg, and Laurel Huber. As a musicologist, Decker has published five books and over thirty articles and book chapters, including several scholarly pieces on the sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti. He occasionally teaches courses on eighteenth-century music.