[311] Piano Professor Arunesh Nadgir To Perform Free Recital At MTSU

PIANO PROFESSOR ARUNESH NADGIR TO PERFORM FREE RECITAL AT MTSU
Event Slated for Feb. 21 in Wright Music Building on Campus

FOR RELEASE: Feb. 14, 2011
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Tim Musselman, 615-898-2493, tmusselm@mtsu.edu

MURFREESBORO—MTSU Assistant Professor of Piano Arunesh Nadgir will present a free public piano recital on Monday, Feb. 21, at 8 p.m. in Hinton Hall of the Wright Music Building on the MTSU campus.
The program will include Liszt’s “Funérailles,” Mozart’s “Piano Sonata in D Major, K. 576” and several works by Chopin, including his “Polonaise-Fantasie.”
“These are three of the most important composers to write for the keyboard, and I’m looking forward to presenting some of their greatest masterpieces here in Murfreesboro,” said Nadgir.
Nadgir has performed as a soloist and a chamber musician in the United States, Europe and Asia and in venues that include Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Eastman Theatre and Jordan Hall. He has participated in several international music festivals, including the Millennium International Piano Festival, The Moulin d’Ande Festival and the Kneisel Hall Summer Music Festival.
Nadgir began taking piano lessons at the age of seven with Michael Thomopoulos and later studied under Wha Kyung Byun, Robert McDonald and Natalya Antonova. He holds degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music, The Juilliard School and the Eastman School of Music.
For more information on Nadgir’s performance or other concerts by the MTSU School of Music please call 615-898-2493 or click on the “Concert Calendar” link at www.mtsumusic.com.

Founded in 1911, Middle Tennessee State University is a Tennessee Board of Regents institution located in Murfreesboro and is the state’s largest public undergraduate institution. MTSU now boasts one of the nation’s first master’s degree programs in horse science, and the Council of Graduate Schools in Washington, D.C., acclaims MTSU’s Master of Science in Professional Science degree—the only one in Tennessee—as a model program. MTSU recently unveiled three new doctoral degrees in the sciences.

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IN BRIEF: MTSU Assistant Professor of Piano Arunesh Nadgir will present a free public piano recital on Monday, Feb. 21, at 8 p.m. in Hinton Hall of the Wright Music Building on the MTSU campus. The program will include Liszt’s “Funérailles,” Mozart’s “Piano Sonata in D Major, K. 576” and several works by Chopin, including his “Polonaise-Fantasie.” For more information on Nadgir’s performance or other concerts by the MTSU School of Music please call 615-898-2493 or click on the “Concert Calendar” link at www.mtsumusic.com.

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ATTENTION, MEDIA: For a color JPEG of Professor Nadgir, please contact Tim Musselman via e-mail at tmusselm@mtsu.edu or by calling 615-898-2493.

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