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3-2-09

Contacts:
William David, Department of Music, (515) 294-2027 (wdavid@iastate.edu)
Laura Engelson, Liberal Arts & Sciences Communications, (515) 294-6426 (lge@iastate.edu)

Music Department Pianists to Play Bartók, Chopin, Rossini and Tchaikovsky Pieces

Ames, Iowa - Five pianists, all members of the ISU Music Department faculty, will present a recital of rarely heard piano music on Sunday, March 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall.

First on the program is a 20th century masterpiece, Béla Bartók’s Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, composed in 1937. Pianists William David and Mason Conklin will join ISU percussion professor Barry Larkin and his gifted student Bri Leahy in the performance. The composition is an intricate and brilliant three-movement work in which the percussion instruments play an integral melodic and rhythmic role.

Following intermission, Paula Forrest and Joshua Grunmann will perform the well-known Waltz of the Flowers from Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker” on two pianos. Grunmann will then play some familiar solo piano music of Chopin.

Bringing the program to a close is an arrangement of the overture to Rossini’s opera The Barber of Seville performed by three pianists at one piano. Ruth Lin, director of orchestral activities at Iowa State, will join Forrest and Grunmann in this tour de force.

A reception hosted by the ISU Music Department Advisory Committee will be held in lobby following the recital. Admission to the recital is free, and all audience members are invited to the reception.

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