The University at Albany Department
of Music is pleased to present faculty member Victoria von Arx in Music for Solo Piano which will include music by Bach, Beethoven,
Chopin and George T. Walker on Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 8pm in the Recital
Hall of the Performing Arts Center on the uptown campus.
George T. Walker is a
graduate of Oberlin College, the Curtis
Institute and the Eastman School of Music. He has also studied at the American
Conservatory in Fontainebleau with Nadia Boulanger. Walker has composed over
90 works for orchestra, small ensembles, solo instruments and voice and has
received commissions from major American orchestras including the New York
Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony and the Cleveland Chamber Orchestra. The program will feature his Piano Sonata no.
2, a highly emotional and expressive early work dating from 1957.
Pianist Victoria von Arx has served on the
faculties of Syracuse University, the Metropolitan School for the Arts in Syracuse, the Third Street
Music School Settlement in New York City and the Adamant Music School in Vermont. Prior to her
arrival in the Albany area, she served
on the faculties of the Flint School of Performing Arts and the University of
Michigan-Flint. von Arx received a B. Mus. Ed. from Viterbo College (LaCrosse WI), a M. Mus. in Performance from Syracuse University and M. Phil.
Musicology from City University of New York. Her major teachers have included
Frederick Marvin, Oxana Yablonskaya,
Sascha Gorodnitzki, German Diez and Menahem Pressler.
Tickets are $8 for the general public and $4 for students and
may be purchased through the Performing Arts Center Box Office. For further information, contact the Box Office
at (518) 442-3997 or visit the Performing Arts Center website at www.albany.edu/pac.
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