UNC Wilmington Presents an Evening of Piano with Laura Melton Oct. 26
10/19/2009 4:51:46 PM
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The University of North Carolina Wilmington presents an evening of piano with Wilmington native Laura Melton at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 26 in Beckwith Recital Hall at the Cultural Arts Building. Melton will perform works by Franz Joseph Haydn, Johannes Brahms and Sebastian Currier.
Melton lived in Wilmington until 1981 and attended New Hanover High School. She is associate professor and coordinator of keyboard studies at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. Melton has been awarded prizes in several major international competitions including the Mendelssohn Competition in Berlin, the New York Recital Division of the Joanna Hodges Competition and the National Symphony Orchestra's Young Artist Competition. Her orchestral appearances include the Freiburg Musikhochschulorchester in Germany, the San Francisco Chamber Players, the International Chamber Orchestra in California and the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. She has been featured on Südwestfunk Radio (Germany), Kol Israel, Radio Nacional de España and National Public Radio's Performance Today. Her recent CD of solo piano and chamber works of Samuel Adler was released on Naxos in December 2008. She is currently recording the solo piano works of Sebastian Currier for a 2010 release.
Melton is an avid chamber musician and performs across the U.S. as a member of the Phoenix Piano Quartet. She has appeared in several summer festivals including Ravinia, Aspen and Sarasota, as well as European festivals in Holland, Switzerland, Germany and Greece. She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland, a master's degree from the University of Southern California and a doctorate from Rice University. As a student of Robert Levin, she spent three years in Germany as a Fulbright Scholar. Prior to her BGSU appointment in 1999, Melton was on the faculty of the Idyllwild Arts Academy in California.
Tickets are $5 for general public and UNCW employees; free to UNCW students with valid IDs. Tickets are on sale at the Cultural Arts Building box office beginning at 6:30 p.m. on the evening of the performance.
For more information about this event, go to www.uncw.edu/music-calendar or call 910.962.3415.
Media contact:
Dana Fischetti, media relations manager, 910.962.7259 or fischettid@uncw.edu
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