MURFREESBORO — MTSU’s School of Music is opening
the second year of its popular Keyboard Artist Series Sunday, Sept. 11, with a
free public concert by associate piano professor Adam Clark in the university’s
Wright Music Building.
Clark’s 3
p.m. performance, set for the Wright Building’s Hinton Music Hall, launches the
2016-17 concert series, which features MTSU faculty and distinguished guest
artists from around the world. A searchable campus parking map is available at http://tinyurl.com/MTSUParkingMap.
The
professor will perform the complete “Op. 39 Études-Tableaux” by Sergei
Rachmaninoff in honor of the work’s centennial.
"The
études are incredible pieces, showcasing the breadth of Rachmaninoff's wizardry
as a pianist and composer,” said Clark, who also serves as president of the Middle
Tennessee Music Teachers Association.
“One can
hear magnificent depictions of Russian bells, the incorporation of chant-like
melodies and an abundance of pianistic fireworks — all trademarks of
Rachmaninoff's music. The set is drenched in powerful imagery and imagination
throughout."
Clark
noted that the composer wrote the “Études-Tableaux” — French for “study
pictures,” or what Rachmaninoff called “picture pieces” designed to evoke
images via music — in 1916 and 1917 and published the set in 1917. They were
the last pieces Rachmaninoff composed in his homeland before the Russian
Revolutions of 1917 forced him to flee forever.
"I've
been in love with Rachmaninoff's music for as long as I can remember. This
performance will be my first of the complete set,” the professor noted.
Clark, a prizewinner
in numerous competitions, has performed as a soloist, chamber musician and
concerto soloist throughout the United States as well as in Belgium, Italy and
South Korea. His performances have been broadcast on U.S. public radio and
South Korean TV.
The
2016-17 Keyboard Artist Series also features three more concerts in Hinton
Hall, including an Oct. 2 performance by special guests the Pridonoff Duo; a
Jan. 29 recital by piano professor Charles Asche of the University of
California, Santa Barbara; and a Feb. 27 concert by Arunesh Nadgir, coordinator
of keyboard studies for MTSU’s School of Music.
For more
information on the Keyboard Artist Series at MTSU, visit http://www.mtsu.edu/music/keyboardseries.php. For details on other
concerts in the MTSU School of Music, call 615-898-2493 or visit http://www.mtsumusic.com and
click on the "Concert Calendar" link.
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