April 5, 2011

Pianist Daniel Schene in Recital at Webster University

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What/Who:

Webster University presents a Faculty Recital featuring pianist Daniel Schene with guest artists

John McGrosso and Kurt Baldwin, first violinist and cellist of the Arianna String Quartet.

Program will include:

J.S. Bach: prelude and fugue in b major

Brahms: piano pieces, op. 119

Beethoven: trio in b-flat major for piano, violin and cello, op. 97 "archduke"

When:           

Sunday, April 10, 2011, 4 p.m.

Where:            

Winifred Moore Auditorium, Webster University

470 E. Lockwood Ave.

Cost:                       

$5 for general admission, $3 seniors, at the door.

More Info:           

Call 968-7032, or the Fine Arts Hotline at 968-7128.

A native of New York, Professor Daniel Schene has performed as a recitalist, chamber musician, concert soloist, and accompanist across the United States and Canada, as well as France, Italy, Turkey, Chile, Brazil, Greece and Asia.

Professor Schene is the duo partner of Eva Szekely, first violinist of the Esterhazy Quartet. He is a frequent guest artist with the Saint Louis Symphony’s Chamber Music St. Louis concerts and the Prelude series at Powell Hall. He has collaborated with renowned cellist Zara Nelsova and Denes Kovacs, director of the Liszt Academy in Budapest.

After his debut with the Charlotte Symphony at fifteen, he attended the North Carolina School of the Arts.

He received the BM and MM in Piano Performance from Indiana University, studying with Gyorgy Sebok and Enrica Cavallo-Gulli. At Indiana, he was the recipient of the prestigious Joseph Battista Memorial Award. Professor Schene has been Artist-in-Residence and Director of Keyboard Studies at Webster University since 1983. He is a founding faculty member of the Indiana University Summer Academy and the Institute for Advanced Vocal Studies in Paris. Mr. Schene records for the CRI label.