Music faculty pianists announce Scintillating Centenarians concert tour

Music faculty pianists Dr. Joanne Kong and Dr. Paul Hanson will perform a series of concerts during the 2008-2009 season to commemorate the centenaries of two giants of contemporary music, Elliott Carter and Olivier Messiaen (b. 1908). Titled Scintillating Centenarians, the program will feature solo piano music of Carter and Messiaen’s monumental two-piano cycle Visions de l’amen.

Performance venues will include Kalamazoo College, Eastern Washington University, Seattle’s Transport Concert Series, Longwood University, St. Mary's College (Maryland), James Madison University, Chowan University and a special free joint concert with the University of Richmond's Ensemble-in-Residence, eighth blackbird, on Monday, February 23, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. in Camp Concert Hall.

Posted September 12, 2008