Recent Performances

  • Date/Time: 09/13/09, 7:00 PM
  • Location: Montreat College, Montreat, NC
  • Host: Friends of Music Series
  • Venue: Chapel of the Prodigal
  • Program: Music of Gottschalk and Gershwin
  • http://www.montreat.edu
  • Date/Time: 04/28/09, 7:30 PM
  • Location: Elon, NC
  • Host: Elon University Orchestra
  • Venue: McCrary Theatre
  • Program: Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 2
  • Coperformers: Thomas Erdmann, conductor
  • Ticket Info: http://www.elon.edu
  • Date/Time: 08/17/08, 3:00 PM
  • Location: Winston-Salem, NC
  • Host: Carolina Chamber Symphony Players
  • Venue: Reynolda House Museum of American Art
  • Program: All-Gershwin program, including The George Gershwin
  • Coperformers: Jacqui Carrasco, violin
  • Ticket Info: http://reynoldahouse.org
  • Date/Time: 07/22/08, 9:15 PM
  • Location: Ponzano di Fermo (AP), Italy
  • Host: Chamber music festival “Armonie della sera”
  • Venue: Church of San Marco
  • Program: Songs of Cole Porter, George Gerswhin, Irving Berlin
  • Coperformers: Barbara DeMaio Caprilli, soprano
  • Date/Time: 07/20/08, 9:30 PM
  • Location: Porto Recanati (MC), Italy
  • Host: Concert series “Concerti d’estate”
  • Venue: Courtyard of Palazzo Lucangeli
  • Program: Songs of Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin
  • Coperformers: Barbara DeMaio Caprilli, soprano

Additional Past Performances

Solo Recitals (US)

Guest Artist Recital, Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC, March 30, 2006.
Guest Artist Recital, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, April 10, 2006.
Solo Piano Recital, Music at Cherry Hill, Cherry Hill Plantation, Inez, NC, October 22, 2006
Solo Piano Recital, Music at Cherry Hill, Cherry Hill Plantation, Inez, NC, October 14, 2007.
Guest Artist Recital, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, November 18, 2007.
Faculty Recital, Piano Music of American Composers, Davidson College, Tyler-Tallman Hall, Davidson, NC, November 29, 2007.

Solo Recitals (abroad)

Solo piano recital, Schumann Marathon, University of Rome, “La Sapienza,” Rome, Italy, March 30, 2004.
Solo piano recital, “Concerti d’estate” series, Porto Recanati, Italy, July 23, 2006.
Solo piano recital, “Armonie della sera” series, Ponzano di Fermo, Italy, July 25, 2006.
Solo piano recital, “Al chiaro della luna” series, Fabriano, Italy, July 27, 2006.

Collaborative and Chamber Music Performances

Faculty Recital with Diane Thornton, Songs and Arias on Texts of William Shakespeare, Davidson College, Davidson, NC, February 3, 2007.

21st Century Music Concert with Diane Thornton, contralto, and John Cloer, cello, “Crossing Rivers IV for Contralto, Cello and Piano,” Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC, April 1, 2007.

Faculty Chamber Music Concert with Janna Lower, violin, and Mark Tanner, cello, Trios of Brahms and Mary Armistead Jones, Davidson College, Davidson, NC, February 9, 2008.


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