Bradley Brookshire to Perform Goldberg Variations at Cooperstown Summer Music Festival, 7/30

The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival presents The Goldberg Variations Demystified on Thursday, July 30 at 7:30 pm at Hyde Hall in Cooperstown. Bradley Brookshire, harpsichord, will perform The Goldberg Variations on a two manual harpsichord, and offer insights into J.S. Bach's colorful and ambitious masterpiece. Seen and Heard International asserts, "Many have played the Goldberg Variations, but few with Brookshire's imagination and brilliance."

Bradley Brookshire is an assistant conductor and harpsichordist at the Metropolitan Opera in Manhattan. He has recorded for Sony Classical, BBC Records, Vox Classics, Opus 111 (Paris), and Music and Arts. He teaches music history, historical performance practice, and counterpoint at SUNY Purchase. SUNY awarded him its Chancellor's Award in 2004.

The concert will take place in the Drawing Room of Hyde Hall, a neoclassical country mansion at the north end of Otsego Lake in Cooperstown.