[301] GUEST PIANIST KEIKO SEKINO TO PERFORM AT MTSU FEB. 10

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Feb. 6, 2009
CONTACT: School of Music, (615) 898-2493

GUEST PIANIST KEIKO SEKINO TO PERFORM AT MTSU FEB. 10

(MURFREESBORO)—Pianist Keiko Sekino will perform in a free concert at 8 p.m. Feb. 10 in the T. Earl Hinton Music Hall of the Wright Music Building on the MTSU campus.
“Ms. Sekino is bringing our community a varied program of significant piano works certain to appeal to a wide range of listeners,” said Lynn Rice-See, MTSU piano professor and coordinator of keyboard studies at MTSU.
Her program will include the Robert Schumann's Fantasy, Op. 17; Liszt's Vallée d’Obermann; and Leon Kirchner's Five Pieces
Per Rice-See, each of the Kirchner pieces were inspired by a poem.
“The Schumann Fantasy is one of the landmarks of the piano repertoire, filled with tender expressive melodies and extremely difficult, exciting passages," she said.
"It contrasts beautifully with the work by his friend and contemporary, Franz Liszt,” she continued. “And the Kirchner is almost certainly a Murfreesboro premiere, although the piece was composed in 1985.”
Pianist Sekino is an assistant professor at East Carolina University, where she joined the faculty in fall 2007. She received her musical training at Yale University and Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, and has performed throughout the United States, Japan and Europe.
She also has performed at music festivals including Ravinia Yellow Barn, Santander, and LaGesse. She served as rehearsal pianists for such conductors as James Levine and Keith Lockhart.
The Feb. 10 concert is free and open to the public.
For more information on this or other concerts at the MTSU School of Music, please call (615) 898-2493 or visit the "Calendar of Events" link at www.mtsumusic.com.