With their hands poised above the keys, they looked at each other and nodded before they began their performance.
Before the musicians played the concert’s final duet, they smiled and hugged each other as the audience clapped.
Ogg and Wright performed a recital honoring the life of Georgina Joshi on Wednesday as part of the Five Friends Series.
The Five Friends Master Class Series honors the lives of Chris Carducci, Garth Eppley, Georgina Joshi, Zachary Novak and Robert Samels, students of the Jacob School of Music who died in a plane crash in 2006.
The plane, which Joshi was piloting, crashed one-fourth of a mile south of the Monroe County Airport. Joshi had been a skilled, licensed pilot, according to her obituary.
Joshi was a voice student pursuing her master’s degree. While at IU, she studied with Alan Bennet and performed solos in several concerts. Her mother started the Georgina Joshi Foundation in honor of the five students.
The Five Friends Master Class Series was created in 2012 with an endowment from the organization. It includes lectures, master classes and residencies by musicians, focusing on areas relevant to the lives of the five students.
Professor of music Ernesto Bitetti, who is the chair of the guitar department in the music school, said he came because he wanted to hear his colleagues perform and because he is familiar with certain recordings of Ogg’s music.
“I’m excited to hear beautiful music at an excellent venue,” Bitetti said.
In addition to Wednesday’s concert, Ogg was a guest speaker in two master classes for the Five Friends Master Class Series.
The two musicians will also perform with the Baroque Orchestra in a concert at 2 p.m. Sunday in Auer Hall.
Ogg, who is from Holland, is the artistic director of the Lyra Baroque Orchestra in Minnesota and a professor at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague.
“He is a superb harpsichordist,” Wright said.
Wright, a professor of music in the music school, has performed all around the world in concerts series and festivals. Ogg and Wright both studied in Amsterdam with an instructor named Gustav Leonhardt, who was a Dutch harpsichordist, organist and conductor.
Wright said the two of them have taught at each other’s institutions for over a decade.
The repertoire includes François Couperin’s “Selections from ‘Pièces de clavecin,’” Johann Gottlieb Janitsch’s “Quartet No. 6 in C Minor,” Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach’s “Selections from ‘Kleine Duetten, Wq.115’” and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach’s “Concerto in F Major, F.10.”
Audience member Wendy Gillespie said she was interested in the performance because she is the chair of the early music department in the music school.
“I’m looking forward to hearing these two people have fun playing together,” Gillespie said.
Audience member Tara Hall said she learned about the recital from Prelude, a publication by the Jacobs school, and she came to enjoy the beautiful music.
She said she likes that the music school provides opportunities for people to come to concerts.
“I’m so grateful for the Jacobs School for making available these amazing, high quality recitals,” Hall said.
