[357] PIANIST THERESA BOGARD PEFORMS WORKS OF WOMEN COMPOSERS AT MTSU

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 10, 2009
CONTACT: Tim Musselman (615) 898-2493

PIANIST THERESA BOGARD PEFORMS WORKS OF WOMEN COMPOSERS AT MTSU

(MURFREESBORO)—Award-winning pianist Theresa Bogard will perform in a free and open concert featuring the works of women composers at 8 p.m. March 17 in Hinton Music Hall of the Wright Music building on the MTSU campus.
"This recital offers a tremendous diversity of style in works by women composers over the last nearly two hundred years," said Lynn Rice-See, director of keyboard studies at MTSU.
"Dr. Bogard's extensive championship of women composers will offer students and community members an unusual opportunity to celebrate and learn about women's contributions to the piano repertoire," Rice-See added.
Bogard will perform Troubled Water by Margaret Bonds, Soirée Musicales by Clara Schumann, Prelude for Piano by Julie Perry, Or like a ... an Engine by Joan Tower, Piano Sonata No. 3 by Emma Lou Diemer, Continuo en mi by Denise Garcia, Piano Sonata No. 1 by Louise Talma and Toccata for Piano, also by Diemer.
Bogard studied piano at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in Australia, the University of Colorado at Boulder and at the Eastman School of Music. In 1988, she received a Fulbright grant to study fortepiano with Stanley Hoogland at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague in The Netherlands and was a top-prize winner in the International Mozart Fortepiano Competition in Bruges, Belgium, the following year.
She is an active performer combining varied interests in historical performance practice, contemporary music and chamber music, as well as the music of women composers. Well known as a teacher, Bogard’s students have distinguished themselves in several national and international competitions. Since 1996, she has added traditional Balinese gamelan music to her special interests and has studied gender wayang in Bali, Indonesia.
The March 17 concert is free and open to the public.
For further information on this and other concerts at the MTSU School of Music visit the calendar of events link at www.mtsumusic.com or call (615) 898-2493.

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