AWARD-WINNING PIANIST DR. DEAVER TO PERFORM AT ECU ON MARCH 3

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Award-winning pianist Dr. Stuart Deaver will perform a free concert on Sunday, March 3 at 3 p.m. at the Ataloa Theatre of East Central University’s Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center.

Deaver, who currently served as a professor of piano at the University of Tulsa, has won numerous awards and has performed across the United States as well as internationally in Portugal and Japan.

He was invited to perform and lecture on the complete solo minimalist works by American composer John Adams and Palacio Foz in Lisbon, Portugal in 2010. He returned to Portugal in 2012 for a solo recital at Teatro Eduardo Brazao (Vila Nova de Gaia) in the northern region.

Deaver was also invited to play a solo recital of works by Mozart, Jose Vianna da Motta and John Adams at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, N.J., in 2011. Recordings of this performance were selected for radio broadcast and can be heard on classical radio station WWFM, which serves the greater New York City area.

He began playing the piano at age 11 and, by the age of 16, was the first-place winner of the Tulsa Philharmonic’s Young Artist Competition which led to his orchestral debut performances at Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto with the Tulsa Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Bernard Rubinstein.

Deaver maintains an active performance schedule as a chamber musician and has collaborated with esteemed musicians around the country such as violinist Maureen O’Boyle, clarinetist Paul Garritson, cellist Diane Bucchianari and baritone Brady McElligott.

He performed a series of recitals in 2009 with Bucchianari that featured Rachmaninov’s Sonata for Cello and Piano. His collaboration in 2010 with O’Boyle featured a series of recitals of sonatas by Franck and Brahms. The tour included a performance at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, N.M.

Deaver is an active adjudicator through MTNA and was invited to sit on the jury of the inaugural Schmidbauer International Piano Competition in Texas in 2008. He was also on the staff of the 15th and 16th Vianna da Motta International Piano Competitions in Lisbon, Portugal in 2004 and 2007.

He is also involved in music theory research and has presented his work at conference and universities around the country, including the Rocky Mountain Society of Music Theory at the University of Denver, the 15th Music Theory (MTMW) Conference at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio, and at Rider University in Princeton, N.J.

At MTMW, Deaver was awarded the Arthur J. Komar Award for outstanding research and presentation of his paper Musical Equivalency of Alphabetical Order in Torke’s Telephone Book.

He has held teaching positions at the University of Kansas, Midwestern Music Camp and ECU. Deaver holds a doctor of musical arts degree from the University of Kansas where he studied exclusively with the renowned pianist Sequeira Costa.

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AWARD-WINNING PIANIST DR. DEAVER TO PERFORM AT ECU ON MARCH 3

ECU's mission is to foster a learning environment in which students,
faculty, staff and community interact to educate students for life.

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East Central University Communications and Marketing580-559-5650 or 405-812-1428 (cell)

Award-winning pianist Dr. Stuart Deaver will perform a free concert on Sunday, March 3 at 3 p.m. at the Ataloa Theatre of East Central University’s Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center.

Deaver, who currently served as a professor of piano at the University of Tulsa, has won numerous awards and has performed across the United States as well as internationally in Portugal and Japan.

He was invited to perform and lecture on the complete solo minimalist works by American composer John Adams and Palacio Foz in Lisbon, Portugal in 2010. He returned to Portugal in 2012 for a solo recital at Teatro Eduardo Brazao (Vila Nova de Gaia) in the northern region.

Deaver was also invited to play a solo recital of works by Mozart, Jose Vianna da Motta and John Adams at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, N.J., in 2011. Recordings of this performance were selected for radio broadcast and can be heard on classical radio station WWFM, which serves the greater New York City area.

He began playing the piano at age 11 and, by the age of 16, was the first-place winner of the Tulsa Philharmonic’s Young Artist Competition which led to his orchestral debut performances at Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto with the Tulsa Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Bernard Rubinstein.

Deaver maintains an active performance schedule as a chamber musician and has collaborated with esteemed musicians around the country such as violinist Maureen O’Boyle, clarinetist Paul Garritson, cellist Diane Bucchianari and baritone Brady McElligott.

He performed a series of recitals in 2009 with Bucchianari that featured Rachmaninov’s Sonata for Cello and Piano. His collaboration in 2010 with O’Boyle featured a series of recitals of sonatas by Franck and Brahms. The tour included a performance at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, N.M.

Deaver is an active adjudicator through MTNA and was invited to sit on the jury of the inaugural Schmidbauer International Piano Competition in Texas in 2008. He was also on the staff of the 15th and 16th Vianna da Motta International Piano Competitions in Lisbon, Portugal in 2004 and 2007.

He is also involved in music theory research and has presented his work at conference and universities around the country, including the Rocky Mountain Society of Music Theory at the University of Denver, the 15th Music Theory (MTMW) Conference at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio, and at Rider University in Princeton, N.J.

At MTMW, Deaver was awarded the Arthur J. Komar Award for outstanding research and presentation of his paper Musical Equivalency of Alphabetical Order in Torke’s Telephone Book.

He has held teaching positions at the University of Kansas, Midwestern Music Camp and ECU. Deaver holds a doctor of musical arts degree from the University of Kansas where he studied exclusively with the renowned pianist Sequeira Costa.

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GUEST PIANIST JI SOOK PARK TO PERFORM IN ADA ON FEB. 17

ECU's mission is to foster a learning environment in which students,
faculty, staff and community interact to educate students for life.

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East Central University will host guest pianist Dr. Ji Sook Park for a concert on Sunday, Feb. 17, at 3 p.m. at the Ada Arts & Heritage Center.

The concert is free and open to the public.

Park currently serves as a visiting instructor of music and staff accompanist at Oklahoma Panhandle State University and previously spent some time as a staff accompanist for the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

After her doctoral program, Park taught at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCCA), a prestigious conservatory as she supervised the entire piano program and concertized with the Faubourgh string quartet regularly. She also served as an adjunct piano professor at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.

Born in Pusan, South Korea, Park began taking piano lessons at the age of 4 and, at the age of 17, moved to the United States, where she studied under Bach specialist Dr. Sharon Mann, who is currently on the piano faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory.

While studying with Mann, Park won many of the Bay Area competitions including MTNA, Bach competitions and a concerto competition. She was also selected to work with Robert Shannon and Peter Tackas at the Oberlin International Piano Festival and competition.

Park was accepted to the Aspen Music Festival as a high school student and studied under John and Antoinette Perry. Later, she attended the New England Conservatory and studied with Gabriel Chodos during her undergraduate program, receiving a special piano department scholarship and being accepted on a free tuition scholarship to the Aspen Musical Festival. Park continued at the New England Conservatory and studied with Patricia Zander.

She was accepted to many chamber music festivals as a full scholarship student. Park went on to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for her doctoral degree and studied under Christopher Taylor, majoring in piano performance with a minor in opera coaching/accompanying. During work on her doctoral degree, she was hired to teach at Leysin American School in Switzerland as a piano instructor.

Following the performance on Feb. 17, Park will provide a master class for ECU piano students.

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RUSSIAN PIANIST GLIADKOVSKY TO PERFORM CONCERT AT ADA ARTS & HERITAGE CENTER ON MARCH 13

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Acclaimed Russian pianist Kirill Gliadkovsky will perform a free concert, hosted by the East Central University Department of Music, on Wednesday, March 13, at 7:30 p.m. at the Ada Arts and Heritage Center.

Gliadkovsky’s performances have been met with great enthusiasm by both audiences and music critics in Russia, Europe and North America. His popularity has been fast-growing as well. He has been a featured artist in numerous live television and radio broadcasts and programs on such networks as NPR, CBS, PBS, CBC, WQXR, KBYU, KPAC and Russian State TV. He has recorded six CSs for Alexei Records and for CMK Classics labels.

Joseph Woodard, a critic for the Los Angeles Times, wrote. “…the intensity and a nicely honed musicality left the audience stunned…enthralling…all in all, a gripping and masterful performance.” Dany Margolies at the Malibu Times describes his playing: “wondrous range…impassioned depth…enormous physical and emotional power…a complete artist”. “Fine dramatic senese…appealing range of emotional effects and pianistic devices…wonderful,” wrote the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Since making his first public appearance at age 6, Gliadkovsky has toured extensively on three continents, performing piano and organ recitals and as a soloist with orchestras in various cities in Russia, including Moscow’s prestigious Bolshoi, Maliy and Rachmaninioff Halls, St. Petersburg Philharmonic’s Glinka Hall, as well as in Italy, U.K., Poland, Mongolia, Canada, Japan and throughout the United States.

Gliadkovsky was born in Moscow and has studied music since the age of 5. He attended the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow where his teachers included renowned musicians Lev Vlasenko, Mikhail Pletniev (piano) and Leonid Royzman (organ). Gliadkovsky also earned both his master’s and doctor of musical arts degrees as the University of Southern California with Professors Daniel Pollack (piano), Cherry Rhodes (organ) and William Schaefer (conducting).

He also coached with Ann Schein, Herbert Stessin, Stephen Kovacevich and Lev Naumov. Gliadkovsky took numerous prizes at international piano competitions in Europe and the United States.

Gliadkovsky is an orchestra and choir conductor and performs on the harpsichord as well. He is part of a duo and trio piano team with his wife and a concert pianist Anna Gliadkovskaya and their 14-year-old daughter Anastasia. They have toured together in many states and internationally, to a critical acclaim. Gliadkovsky has been on piano faculties at USC, Pepperdine University and Santa Monica College. He has been the music director and organist at Westwood Hills Christian Church in Los Angeles for 10 years.

Additionally, Gliadkovsky has been a sought-after adjudicator at piano competitions across the nation and a guest artist-teacher in lectures and master classes in Washington D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix, Salt Lake City and Dallas as well as universities in Indiana, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, California, Colorado and Oregon.

His students have won prizes in numerous piano contests and have been accepted (often with full scholarships) at schools such as Manhattan School of Music, Northwestern University, Peabody and San Francisco Conservatories, USC, UCLA, UC Berkley, University of North Texas and others.

Gliadkovsky combines his busy concert schedule with teaching. His recent engagements include tours in the Midwest and on the East Coast, solo and concerto appearances in Costa Rica, California, Utah, Idaho, New Mexico, and Colorado, as well as collaborative performances in Oregon and California. Prior to coming to Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, Calif., where he serves as the director of keyboard studies, he had been the head of piano area at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah. His wife, Anna, has also been on the piano faculty at Southern Utah. She currently teaches as Saddleback and Irvine Valley Colleges.

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RUSSIAN PIANIST GLIADKOVSKY TO PERFORM CONCERT AT ADA ARTS & HERITAGE CENTER ON MARCH 13

ECU's mission is to foster a learning environment in which students,
faculty, staff and community interact to educate students for life.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

East Central University Communications and Marketing580-559-5650 or 405-812-1428 (cell)

Acclaimed Russian pianist Kirill Gliadkovsky will perform a free concert, hosted by the East Central University Department of Music, on Wednesday, March 13, at 7:30 p.m. at the Ada Arts and Heritage Center.

Gliadkovsky’s performances have been met with great enthusiasm by both audiences and music critics in Russia, Europe and North America. His popularity has been fast-growing as well. He has been a featured artist in numerous live television and radio broadcasts and programs on such networks as NPR, CBS, PBS, CBC, WQXR, KBYU, KPAC and Russian State TV. He has recorded six CSs for Alexei Records and for CMK Classics labels.

Joseph Woodard, a critic for the Los Angeles Times, wrote. “…the intensity and a nicely honed musicality left the audience stunned…enthralling…all in all, a gripping and masterful performance.” Dany Margolies at the Malibu Times describes his playing: “wondrous range…impassioned depth…enormous physical and emotional power…a complete artist”. “Fine dramatic senese…appealing range of emotional effects and pianistic devices…wonderful,” wrote the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Since making his first public appearance at age 6, Gliadkovsky has toured extensively on three continents, performing piano and organ recitals and as a soloist with orchestras in various cities in Russia, including Moscow’s prestigious Bolshoi, Maliy and Rachmaninioff Halls, St. Petersburg Philharmonic’s Glinka Hall, as well as in Italy, U.K., Poland, Mongolia, Canada, Japan and throughout the United States.

Gliadkovsky was born in Moscow and has studied music since the age of 5. He attended the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow where his teachers included renowned musicians Lev Vlasenko, Mikhail Pletniev (piano) and Leonid Royzman (organ). Gliadkovsky also earned both his master’s and doctor of musical arts degrees as the University of Southern California with Professors Daniel Pollack (piano), Cherry Rhodes (organ) and William Schaefer (conducting).

He also coached with Ann Schein, Herbert Stessin, Stephen Kovacevich and Lev Naumov. Gliadkovsky took numerous prizes at international piano competitions in Europe and the United States.

Gliadkovsky is an orchestra and choir conductor and performs on the harpsichord as well. He is part of a duo and trio piano team with his wife and a concert pianist Anna Gliadkovskaya and their 14-year-old daughter Anastasia. They have toured together in many states and internationally, to a critical acclaim. Gliadkovsky has been on piano faculties at USC, Pepperdine University and Santa Monica College. He has been the music director and organist at Westwood Hills Christian Church in Los Angeles for 10 years.

Additionally, Gliadkovsky has been a sought-after adjudicator at piano competitions across the nation and a guest artist-teacher in lectures and master classes in Washington D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix, Salt Lake City and Dallas as well as universities in Indiana, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, California, Colorado and Oregon.

His students have won prizes in numerous piano contests and have been accepted (often with full scholarships) at schools such as Manhattan School of Music, Northwestern University, Peabody and San Francisco Conservatories, USC, UCLA, UC Berkley, University of North Texas and others.

Gliadkovsky combines his busy concert schedule with teaching. His recent engagements include tours in the Midwest and on the East Coast, solo and concerto appearances in Costa Rica, California, Utah, Idaho, New Mexico, and Colorado, as well as collaborative performances in Oregon and California. Prior to coming to Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, Calif., where he serves as the director of keyboard studies, he had been the head of piano area at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah. His wife, Anna, has also been on the piano faculty at Southern Utah. She currently teaches as Saddleback and Irvine Valley Colleges.

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GUEST PIANIST JI SOOK PARK TO PERFORM IN ADA ON FEB. 17

ECU's mission is to foster a learning environment in which students,
faculty, staff and community interact to educate students for life.

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East Central University Communications and Marketing580-559-5650 or 405-812-1428 (cell)

East Central University will host guest pianist Dr. Ji Sook Park for a concert on Sunday, Feb. 17, at 3 p.m. at the Ada Arts & Heritage Center.

The concert is free and open to the public.

Park currently serves as a visiting instructor of music and staff accompanist at Oklahoma Panhandle State University and previously spent some time as a staff accompanist for the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

After her doctoral program, Park taught at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCCA), a prestigious conservatory as she supervised the entire piano program and concertized with the Faubourgh string quartet regularly. She also served as an adjunct piano professor at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.

Born in Pusan, South Korea, Park began taking piano lessons at the age of 4 and, at the age of 17, moved to the United States, where she studied under Bach specialist Dr. Sharon Mann, who is currently on the piano faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory.

While studying with Mann, Park won many of the Bay Area competitions including MTNA, Bach competitions and a concerto competition. She was also selected to work with Robert Shannon and Peter Tackas at the Oberlin International Piano Festival and competition.

Park was accepted to the Aspen Music Festival as a high school student and studied under John and Antoinette Perry. Later, she attended the New England Conservatory and studied with Gabriel Chodos during her undergraduate program, receiving a special piano department scholarship and being accepted on a free tuition scholarship to the Aspen Musical Festival. Park continued at the New England Conservatory and studied with Patricia Zander.

She was accepted to many chamber music festivals as a full scholarship student. Park went on to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for her doctoral degree and studied under Christopher Taylor, majoring in piano performance with a minor in opera coaching/accompanying. During work on her doctoral degree, she was hired to teach at Leysin American School in Switzerland as a piano instructor.

Following the performance on Feb. 17, Park will provide a master class for ECU piano students.

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AWARD-WINNING PIANIST DR. DEAVER TO PERFORM AT ECU ON MARCH 3

ECU's mission is to foster a learning environment in which students,
faculty, staff and community interact to educate students for life.

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East Central University Communications and Marketing580-559-5650 or 405-812-1428 (cell)

Award-winning pianist Dr. Stuart Deaver will perform a free concert on Sunday, March 3 at 3 p.m. at the Ataloa Theatre of East Central University’s Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center.

Deaver, who currently served as a professor of piano at the University of Tulsa, has won numerous awards and has performed across the United States as well as internationally in Portugal and Japan.

He was invited to perform and lecture on the complete solo minimalist works by American composer John Adams and Palacio Foz in Lisbon, Portugal in 2010. He returned to Portugal in 2012 for a solo recital at Teatro Eduardo Brazao (Vila Nova de Gaia) in the northern region.

Deaver was also invited to play a solo recital of works by Mozart, Jose Vianna da Motta and John Adams at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, N.J., in 2011. Recordings of this performance were selected for radio broadcast and can be heard on classical radio station WWFM, which serves the greater New York City area.

He began playing the piano at age 11 and, by the age of 16, was the first-place winner of the Tulsa Philharmonic’s Young Artist Competition which led to his orchestral debut performances at Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto with the Tulsa Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Bernard Rubinstein.

Deaver maintains an active performance schedule as a chamber musician and has collaborated with esteemed musicians around the country such as violinist Maureen O’Boyle, clarinetist Paul Garritson, cellist Diane Bucchianari and baritone Brady McElligott.

He performed a series of recitals in 2009 with Bucchianari that featured Rachmaninov’s Sonata for Cello and Piano. His collaboration in 2010 with O’Boyle featured a series of recitals of sonatas by Franck and Brahms. The tour included a performance at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, N.M.

Deaver is an active adjudicator through MTNA and was invited to sit on the jury of the inaugural Schmidbauer International Piano Competition in Texas in 2008. He was also on the staff of the 15th and 16th Vianna da Motta International Piano Competitions in Lisbon, Portugal in 2004 and 2007.

He is also involved in music theory research and has presented his work at conference and universities around the country, including the Rocky Mountain Society of Music Theory at the University of Denver, the 15th Music Theory (MTMW) Conference at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio, and at Rider University in Princeton, N.J.

At MTMW, Deaver was awarded the Arthur J. Komar Award for outstanding research and presentation of his paper Musical Equivalency of Alphabetical Order in Torke’s Telephone Book.

He has held teaching positions at the University of Kansas, Midwestern Music Camp and ECU. Deaver holds a doctor of musical arts degree from the University of Kansas where he studied exclusively with the renowned pianist Sequeira Costa.

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AWARD-WINNING PIANIST DR. DEAVER TO PERFORM AT ECU ON MARCH 3

ECU's mission is to foster a learning environment in which students,
faculty, staff and community interact to educate students for life.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

East Central University Communications and Marketing580-559-5650 or 405-812-1428 (cell)

Award-winning pianist Dr. Stuart Deaver will perform a free concert on Sunday, March 3 at 3 p.m. at the Ataloa Theatre of East Central University’s Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center.

Deaver, who currently served as a professor of piano at the University of Tulsa, has won numerous awards and has performed across the United States as well as internationally in Portugal and Japan.

He was invited to perform and lecture on the complete solo minimalist works by American composer John Adams and Palacio Foz in Lisbon, Portugal in 2010. He returned to Portugal in 2012 for a solo recital at Teatro Eduardo Brazao (Vila Nova de Gaia) in the northern region.

Deaver was also invited to play a solo recital of works by Mozart, Jose Vianna da Motta and John Adams at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, N.J., in 2011. Recordings of this performance were selected for radio broadcast and can be heard on classical radio station WWFM, which serves the greater New York City area.

He began playing the piano at age 11 and, by the age of 16, was the first-place winner of the Tulsa Philharmonic’s Young Artist Competition which led to his orchestral debut performances at Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto with the Tulsa Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Bernard Rubinstein.

Deaver maintains an active performance schedule as a chamber musician and has collaborated with esteemed musicians around the country such as violinist Maureen O’Boyle, clarinetist Paul Garritson, cellist Diane Bucchianari and baritone Brady McElligott.

He performed a series of recitals in 2009 with Bucchianari that featured Rachmaninov’s Sonata for Cello and Piano. His collaboration in 2010 with O’Boyle featured a series of recitals of sonatas by Franck and Brahms. The tour included a performance at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, N.M.

Deaver is an active adjudicator through MTNA and was invited to sit on the jury of the inaugural Schmidbauer International Piano Competition in Texas in 2008. He was also on the staff of the 15th and 16th Vianna da Motta International Piano Competitions in Lisbon, Portugal in 2004 and 2007.

He is also involved in music theory research and has presented his work at conference and universities around the country, including the Rocky Mountain Society of Music Theory at the University of Denver, the 15th Music Theory (MTMW) Conference at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio, and at Rider University in Princeton, N.J.

At MTMW, Deaver was awarded the Arthur J. Komar Award for outstanding research and presentation of his paper Musical Equivalency of Alphabetical Order in Torke’s Telephone Book.

He has held teaching positions at the University of Kansas, Midwestern Music Camp and ECU. Deaver holds a doctor of musical arts degree from the University of Kansas where he studied exclusively with the renowned pianist Sequeira Costa.

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GUEST PIANIST JI SOOK PARK TO PERFORM IN ADA ON FEB. 17

ECU's mission is to foster a learning environment in which students,
faculty, staff and community interact to educate students for life.

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East Central University Communications and Marketing580-559-5650 or 405-812-1428 (cell)

East Central University will host guest pianist Dr. Ji Sook Park for a concert on Sunday, Feb. 17, at 3 p.m. at the Ada Arts & Heritage Center.

The concert is free and open to the public.

Park currently serves as a visiting instructor of music and staff accompanist at Oklahoma Panhandle State University and previously spent some time as a staff accompanist for the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

After her doctoral program, Park taught at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCCA), a prestigious conservatory as she supervised the entire piano program and concertized with the Faubourgh string quartet regularly. She also served as an adjunct piano professor at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.

Born in Pusan, South Korea, Park began taking piano lessons at the age of 4 and, at the age of 17, moved to the United States, where she studied under Bach specialist Dr. Sharon Mann, who is currently on the piano faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory.

While studying with Mann, Park won many of the Bay Area competitions including MTNA, Bach competitions and a concerto competition. She was also selected to work with Robert Shannon and Peter Tackas at the Oberlin International Piano Festival and competition.

Park was accepted to the Aspen Music Festival as a high school student and studied under John and Antoinette Perry. Later, she attended the New England Conservatory and studied with Gabriel Chodos during her undergraduate program, receiving a special piano department scholarship and being accepted on a free tuition scholarship to the Aspen Musical Festival. Park continued at the New England Conservatory and studied with Patricia Zander.

She was accepted to many chamber music festivals as a full scholarship student. Park went on to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for her doctoral degree and studied under Christopher Taylor, majoring in piano performance with a minor in opera coaching/accompanying. During work on her doctoral degree, she was hired to teach at Leysin American School in Switzerland as a piano instructor.

Following the performance on Feb. 17, Park will provide a master class for ECU piano students.

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GUEST PIANIST JI SOOK PARK TO PERFORM IN ADA ON FEB. 17

ECU's mission is to foster a learning environment in which students,
faculty, staff and community interact to educate students for life.

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East Central University Communications and Marketing580-559-5650 or 405-812-1428 (cell)

East Central University will host guest pianist Dr. Ji Sook Park for a concert on Sunday, Feb. 17, at 3 p.m. at the Ada Arts & Heritage Center.

The concert is free and open to the public.

Park currently serves as a visiting instructor of music and staff accompanist at Oklahoma Panhandle State University and previously spent some time as a staff accompanist for the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

After her doctoral program, Park taught at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCCA), a prestigious conservatory as she supervised the entire piano program and concertized with the Faubourgh string quartet regularly. She also served as an adjunct piano professor at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.

Born in Pusan, South Korea, Park began taking piano lessons at the age of 4 and, at the age of 17, moved to the United States, where she studied under Bach specialist Dr. Sharon Mann, who is currently on the piano faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory.

While studying with Mann, Park won many of the Bay Area competitions including MTNA, Bach competitions and a concerto competition. She was also selected to work with Robert Shannon and Peter Tackas at the Oberlin International Piano Festival and competition.

Park was accepted to the Aspen Music Festival as a high school student and studied under John and Antoinette Perry. Later, she attended the New England Conservatory and studied with Gabriel Chodos during her undergraduate program, receiving a special piano department scholarship and being accepted on a free tuition scholarship to the Aspen Musical Festival. Park continued at the New England Conservatory and studied with Patricia Zander.

She was accepted to many chamber music festivals as a full scholarship student. Park went on to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for her doctoral degree and studied under Christopher Taylor, majoring in piano performance with a minor in opera coaching/accompanying. During work on her doctoral degree, she was hired to teach at Leysin American School in Switzerland as a piano instructor.

Following the performance on Feb. 17, Park will provide a master class for ECU piano students.

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Attend master class with pianist Julian Martin, Feb. 2

January 23, 2013

Julian Martin

LA GRANDE, Ore. (EOU) ? Julian Martin, distinguished pianist and Julliard School professor, is leading a master class series at EOU as part of a tour of Oregon colleges.

Tailored for piano teachers, this free professional development opportunity is from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, in Groth Recital Hall in Loso Hall, Room 126.

Students, faculty and community members are also invited to attend. An informal reception hosted by The Oregon Community Foundation will follow the class, providing an opportunity for audience members and EOU student performers to visit with Martin.

Martin has taught at the Oberlin Conservatory, Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University and Julliard since 1999. In addition to giving master classes throughout the U.S., he has presented in Argentina, Canada, Colombia, Germany, Great Britain, Israel, Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, Uruguay and Venezuela.

A native of Alabama, Martin first garnered global attention as winner of the Montevideo International Competition, and also received major prizes in the Casadeus/Ravel (now Cleveland International), Kapell and Bachauer competitions. In 1982, he was awarded the Collaborative Prize at The Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow.

This master class is made possible through The Nellie Tholen Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation. OCF awards more than $65 million annually in grants and scholarships.

For more information contact Matt Cooper, EOU professor of music, at 541-962-3559 or mcooper@eou.edu.

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