Saturday February 2, 2008
UNCW ANNUAL PIANO MASTER CLASS, Barry David Salwen, Director
1:00-4:00 pm / Cultural Arts Building recital hall
For students at the early intermediate level and above, ages 12 and up.
$10 registration fee
Students, teachers and the public are welcome to attend and listen at no charge.
Contact Dr. Barry Salwen for information
910/962-3890 or salwenb@uncw.edu
ABOUT THE CLINICIAN
Barry David Salwen is the Coordinator of Piano Performance for the UNCW Department of Music, and is an international concert pianist, giving performances and master classes in the U.S., Europe, Israel, and Asia. He received his doctorate, masters, and bachelors degrees in Music from The Juilliard School and was awarded a Diploma with Highest Honors from the Vienna Academy of Music in Austria,
An active clinician, Salwen gave two weeks of master classes at the Shanghai Conservatory in China, among many other places. More recently, as the recipient of a prestigious Fulbright Scholars Grant, he gave a semester's seminar at the Music Conservatory in Freiburg, Germany. His annual master classes at UNCW have been attended by students from all over eastern North Carolina.
Among Salwen's nine CDs is the first recording of the complete solo piano music of the American master Roger Sessions; Salwen is the first artist to record all of these works. In 2005 this recording was reissued on Albany Records. Next year, his recording of Sessions's piano concerto will appear on Albany, as well.
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