Saxophonist Anders Lundegard & Pianist Monika Mockovcakova

Wednesday, September 9, 2026,   6:30 pm

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Members $30 - Non-Members $40

Please join us on Wednesday evening, September 9 at 6:30 PM as we return from our August break for a musical evening featuring classical saxophonist Anders Lundegard and pianist Monika Mockovcakova in works by Mendelssohn and McKay along with the world premiere of Midsommarkrans by Lundegard. The bar will open at 6:30 PM, the performance will begin at 7:15 PM, and following the performance there will be an open bar and an hors d'oeuvres buffet.

Price is $40/person and $30/person for Arts Club members, include an hors d'oeuvres reception and full bar

About the Artists

Anders Lundegård was born in Växjö, Sweden, and made his debut as both soloist and broadcast performer at seventeen during a youth artist festival in Stockholm. He earned his undergraduate degree as a student of Christer Johnsson at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, whereupon he received both a Fulbright and a Sweden – America Foundation award to continue his studies abroad. Lundegård completed his Master’s, Certificate of Performance and Doctoral degrees at Northwestern University, studying under the renowned saxophonist Frederick Hemke.

During this time he was the recipient of no less than three awards, toured with the Swedish chamber orchestra Musica Vitæ, had several works dedicated to him, and won the Northwestern Solo Concerto Competition, performing the subject of his dissertation: the Lars-Erik Larsson Saxophone Concerto.

Dr. Lundegård has taught and toured extensively in Scandinavia and America, performing everything from contemporary chamber works to Baroque transcriptions and Classical concerti. As a young musician, Anders was inspired by an anecdote from the saxophone’s early experimental stages (1850s). During an informal visit to the Belgian inventor, Adolph Sax’s, sweatshop, the Italian composer Rossini proclaimed the sound of the new instrument as “the most tender and pleasing he had ever heard.”

Dr. Lundegård has devoted his career to capturing this original sound. He is particularly known for his solo recitals on alto and soprano sax, which include Bach Cello Suites (played at the original pitch) as well as Lundegård’s own compositions.

Slovak pianist Monika Mockovčáková began her piano studies at age six and at the age of thirteen she won the National Music Competition of former Czechoslovakia.

She graduated with honours from The University of Musical Arts of Bratislava,Slovakia, where she received her Master’s degree in Music. She studied piano with the noted slovak pianist Ida Černecká - a pupil of renowned pianist and master teacher Vera Gornostayeva. In 2010, she completed her Doctoral degree at The University of Musical Arts of Bratislava, studying under the distinguished pianist Prof. Daniel Buranovský and Prof. Ľudovit Marcinger.

In the United States,Monika expanded the scope and range of music in her reportoire by studying with pianist and professor Dr. Robert Pennington.

She has attended many international performer courses under the direction of famous pedagogues and performers like: M.Gutman, E.Hagenah, E.Indjic, P.Toperczer, S.Rodriguez,A. Koscielny and others.

Her concert tours have taken her to Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria, Germany, France, Belgium, United States, Switzerland.

In addition to her solo activities,Monika Mockovcakova is often welcomed as a lieder accompanist, chamber music performer and in a duo playing a piano four hands.

In 2007 she won 2nd Prize in the Washington International Piano Artists Competition, as well as the Press Award and the Award for Best Performance of a Classical Work .

In years 2011-2012 she worked as a pedagogue at Conservatoire de musique in Geneva, Studio Kodály in Geneva and Institut Florimont,Switzerland.

She taught piano master class in Czech republic and chamber music class in France.

She worked at the University of Musical Arts of Bratislava.and currently works as a pedagogue at The Conservatory of Music in Bratislava.

She has recorded for Slovak Radio, Czech Radio, Slovak TV and Swiss radio TSR Espace 2.

6:00 p.m. Bar open

7:15 p.m. Performance

8:30 p.m. Reception with the artists

Dress code: business casual

Learn more at: http://classicalsaxophonist.com/

This project is supported in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts.