Sunday July 12 - 3 p.m. Lorentz/Lopez Duo with Poet Michele Battiste
The Lorentz/Lopez duo is a Colorado based flute and guitar duo with a passion for creating new and exciting concert programs. Ethan Lorentz plays guitar while Kassandra Lopez plays flute. The duo strives to expand classical chamber music by playing modern works, creating new arrangements, and collaborating with composers. They also draw on influences from outside the classical sphere. Programs often fuse classical, jazz, Latin American, and pop influences, in unique arrangements of music ranging from Bach to Amy Winehouse. Between the two of them, Lorentz/Lopez hold six degrees from the Lamont School of Music, University of Northern Colorado, and University of Colorado Boulder, and have received multiple grants and awards for outstanding musicianship and academics.
Poet Michele Battiste is the 2026-28 Poet Laureate of Lafayette CO. She is the author of Waiting for the Wreck to Burn (Trio House, 2019), Uprising ( Black Lawrence, 2014), and Ink for an Odd Cartography ( Black Lawrence, 2009). She is also the author of several chapbooks, including Left: Letters to Strangers (Grey Book, 2014). Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Rumpus, Memorious, and Women's Studies Quarterly, among others.
Michele has taught poetry workshops for Wichita State University, the Prison Arts Program in Hutchinson, KS, Gotham Writers' Workshops, and Teen Ink. A finalist for the National Poetry Series, she has received grants and awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, AWP, the Center for the American West, the Jerome Foundation, and the NY State Senate. She lives in Colorado where she works for The Nature Conservancy, raising money to save the planet.
Food and drink available for purchase. All sales are final with no refunds unless show is cancelled.
