FOR RELEASE: March 26, 2013
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Tim Musselman, 615-898-2493 or tim.musselman@mtsu.edu
MURFREESBORO — Prize-winning pianist and Juilliard
professor Robert McDonald will perform works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin,
Nielson and Fauré in a free public concert at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 7, in Hinton
Music Hall inside MTSU’s Wright Music Building.
McDonald,
a prize-winning soloist and chamber musician as well as a longtime recital
partner for renowned violinist and conductor Isaac Stern, also will teach two
free master classes to 10 of Tennessee’s most promising high school and college
piano students on Saturday, April 6, in Hinton Hall.
The
classes, which will be held at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. April 6, will be open to the
public, too.
"It is tremendously exciting to have Mr. McDonald on campus to
perform and work with Tennessee students,” said Dr. Lynn Rice-See, professor of
piano and coordinator of keyboard studies at MTSU.
“His stature both as a performer and a pedagogue place him on the
highest level, and we are delighted to welcome teachers, students and the
public to hear him work with students and perform. Having known him for many
years, I am delighted to have such a special individual in Murfreesboro for a
few days."
During the
master classes, the students, who were selected through an audition process,
will perform works of their solo piano repertoire and will receive input from
McDonald. The participants include:
· MTSU master’s degree candidate
Elizabeth Chua, who is one of MTSU professor Arunesh Nadgir’s students;
· Tennessee Tech sophomore Joshua
Davis, a student of TTU music professor Catherine Godes;
· Elizabeth Gray and Rebekah Lim of
South Haven Christian High School in Springfield, Tenn., who are students of professor
Karen Krieger at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music;
· MTSU junior Yong Goo Kim, one of
Rice-See’s students;
· Siyou Li, a student at Lee University
in Cleveland, Tenn., under music professor Ning An;
· Montgomery Bell Academy Kevin Wang,
who is a student of Blair School of Music professor Amy Dorfman;
· Vanderbilt junior Brian Woods, a
student of the Blair School’s Craig Nies;
· Vanderbilt senior Susan Yang, who
studies with Dorfman at the Blair School; and
· Wan-Lin Yu of Lee University, a
student of Ning An.
“This is a
wonderful opportunity for students in Tennessee to work with one of the world’s
most distinguished pianists and revered teachers as well as to hear him
perform,” said Nadgir, an assistant professor of piano at MTSU.
These free
events are sponsored by the Steinway Piano Gallery of Nashville, the MTSU
Distinguished Lecture Fund, the Office of the University Provost at MTSU, the
MTSU College of Liberal Arts and the MTSU School of Music.
In
addition to performances at international and U.S. music festivals and
broadcasts and an extensive recording career, McDonald has been a member of the
piano faculty at the Juilliard School since 1999. He also joined the faculty of
the Curtis Institute of Music in 2007, where he holds the Penelope P. Watkins
Chair in Piano Studies.
During the
summer, McDonald serves as artistic director of the Taos School of Music and
Chamber Music Festival in New Mexico.
For more information on
this and other MTSU School of Music events, call 615-898-2493 or visit www.mtsumusic.com and click on the "Concert Calendar" link.
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