Associate Professor of Piano, Thomas Rosenkranz recently released a new CD entitled, African Math on the New Focus Label. It features new works by the South American composer, Martin Scherzinger with violinist, Jennifer Choi and cellist, Chris Gross. This is Rosenkranz’s third release on this label.
For more information visit: http://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/martin-scherzinger-african-math/
Penny Thompson Kruse, Professor of Violin, will be joining the faculty at the Bay View Chamber Music Festival in Petosky, Michigan from June 19-July 20.
Dr. Kruse will also be an adjudicator for Thailand’s 4th International String Competition in Bangkok which will take place at Siam Ratchada Music Auditorium in cooperation with Yamaha Music School Ratchadapisek and the Office of Contemporary Art and Culture. The event will be held September 27-29, 2015.
Solungga Liu, Associate Professor of Piano, is currently on a tour in São Paulo, Brazil. She will be performing a solo recital at the MuBe Concert Series in downtown São Paulo, as well as visiting three top Brazilian universities: the University of São Paulo, São Paulo State University and the University of Campinas.
Freshman piano major Xiaohui Ma won the Senior Division of the Graves Piano Competition, a state-wide event for pianists held on March 7 at Graves Piano Company in Columbus and sponsored by the East Central District of Ohio Music Teachers Association. Xiaohui will play a concert in Columbus on March 29 as part of her prize. Ma studies with Professor of Piano Robert Satterlee.
Enrico Solito, a sophomore in the music education program, has been awarded a scholarship to attend the International Trumpet Guild Conference in May. He was selected via recorded audition. He performed the Georges Enescu, Legende and Etude 14 from Marcel Bitch’s Vingt Etudes. Solito is a student of Charles Saenz.
Eftychia Papanikolaou, Associate Professor of Musicology, has been invited to participate as special guest in the 4th annual “Evmelia” International Music Festival in Greece. She will lead pre-concert discussions on select festival events, including a performance of Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. The Festival’s concluding concert, a Liederabend that will include Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Brahms’s Deutsche Volkslieder, is dedicated to the memory of two exceptional music figures with ties to Greece: Brazilian pianist Roberto Szidon (1941-2011), and American musicologist John Daverio (1954-2003), former Chair of Musicology at Boston University.
