LANCASTER—The public is invited to hear Northern Neck Orchestra (NNO) music director Michael Repper give a music study talk to the Rappahannock Music Study Club at 11 a.m. March 6 at Rappahannock Westminster-Canterbury, 132 Lancaster Drive, Irvington.
Repper will present a lesson in music, deconstructing well-known classical pieces on the piano to break down their form and enable better appreciation of the music itself, reported club secretary Joan Blatterman. He will then take related questions from the audience.
Repper has focused on working with young musicians, conducting several masterclasses for orchestras from all over the U.S. on behalf of the New York Philharmonic. In 2025, he was nominated for two Grammy Awards for Orchestral Performance and Classical Instrumental with violinist Curtis Stewart, as conductor of the National Philharmonic at Strathmore.
The studio recording was part of Repper’s Coleridge-Taylor project, praised by NPR for its “holistic approach—its mixture of recording, archival research and publishing… making Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s music, and that of his peers, available to future audiences and performers.”
The Rappahannock Music Study Club was founded in 1961 to create an appreciation of music through study and performance, said Blatterman. The club meets regularly to explore all types of good music and sponsors scholarships for aspiring Northern Neck student-musicians from middle school through college and post-graduate study.
For scholarship applications, visit R-MSC.org.
