Laone Thekiso '12, piano and marimba

The Williams College Department of Music will present a junior recital featuring pianist and marimba player Laone Thekiso on Friday, May 13 at 4 p.m. in Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall on the Williams College campus. This free event is open to the public.

Thekiso will play music by Schubert, Liszt, Chopin, and Kapustin. He will be joined by pianist Alice Sady ’13.

Laone Thekiso, a 2010 Berkshire Symphony student soloist, started learning to play the piano in school at the age of seven while his family was living in Sweden. After the family returned to Botswana in 1999, he underwent a two-year period without a piano teacher. In high school, he began taking lessons with Olga Merker, a pianist from the former Yugoslavia. With her he began playing classical music. Over the six years under he tutelage, he performed three piano concerti with the Johannesburg Festival Orchestra from South Africa. At Williams, he studies with Artist-in-Residence, Doris Stevenson. He plans to major in music and to pursue a career in performance. He is also interested in composition and ethnomusicology, and aims to gain more knowledge and proficiency in these fields. Thekiso began to play the Zimbabwean Marimba at the end of primary school and continued throughout high school. He joined the Zambezi Marimba Band in his first year at Williams and has been a member since.

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