Upcoming Concert
April 28 & 29, 2008
Curtain Time: 7:30 PM
Pianist - Walter Cosand
Performing
Rachmaninov's Second Concerto
Walter Cosand, pianist and Professor of Music at Arizona State University, studied at Eastman School of Music with Cecile Genhart and Barry Snyder. He also studied with Joerg Demus in Europe. He has won several significant awards including the Eastman Concerto Competition, the grand prize from the International Piano Recording Competition, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has been favorably reviewed in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Arizona Republic, and several music periodicals. He was the subject of a featured interview in International Piano Korea in 2007. An experienced recitalist and chamber music performer, he has also performed thirty different concertos. He has commissioned new works from William Albright, William Bolcom, David Diamond and Rodney Rogers. In addition to playing throughout t he United States he has performed in Australia, China, Korea, Canada, Central America, Russia and Europe. In 2004 he played in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York City. He taught classes at Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China in 2006. This year's recitals will take him to France, Portugal, Honduras, Korea and China.
vAlso, a special performance by our Brass Ensemble, playing excerpts from The Opera "DON GIOVANNI" by Mozart.
