The University at
Albany Department of Music is pleased to present faculty emeritus Findlay Cockrell
in program entitled Findlay’s Fabulous Favorites
on Thursday, September 11, 2008 at 7pm and Saturday,
September 13, 2008 at 8pm in the Recital Hall of the
Performing Arts Center on the
uptown campus.
The program will begin
with selections from Mozart, Gershwin and Liszt. Next, it will move to
music of the Russians (Scriabin, Arensky, Kabalevsky and Prokofiev) and the Spanish
(Albeniz, Gottschalk, Moszkowsky and deFalla). The second half will begin
with works by two Scandinavians (Grieg and Sinding) followed by the French (Debussy,
Ravel, Chabrier and Saint-Saens) and finishing with Chopin's A-flat Polonaise.
Cockrell was a scholarship student at Harvard
College and the Juilliard
School of Music, where he received Bachelor and Master's degrees in piano and
was a student of the late Edward Steuermann.
He gave his New York
debut in 1965 under the sponsorship of Concert Artists Guild and Town Hall. On
the faculty of UAlbany from 1966 until 2006,
he was an Associate Professor of Music and a Collins Fellow. In addition to numerous solo recitals, Cockrell
has appeared as concerto soloist with orchestras throughout the U.S., including
the San Francisco Symphony, the
Albany Symphony, the Schenectady Symphony, the Jackson (Michigan) Symphony and the Plymouth (Massachusetts) Symphony. Since 1985, he has given chamber music and
solo concerts in Barbados, Grenada and St. Lucia
and, since 1995, he has performed in Russia
on regular visits in connection with the Albany Tula Alliance. He is the founder and director of the Amadeus
Chamber Orchestra and the Gershwin Pops Orchestra.
Tickets are $10 for the
general public, $8 for seniors & UAlbany faculty/staff and $5 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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