The seventh annual edition of Piano Sundays, a series of free performances at the University of Iowa Old Capitol Museum, resumes Sept. 2 at 1:30 p.m. The series features UI School of Music piano professors and their studio students.

The first concert of the season will showcase Steinway Artist and UI Professor Uriel Tsachor, who teaches piano performance and pedagogy and has performed around the world, including New York, Chicago, Tel-Aviv, Brussels, Vienna, Paris, London, and Milan.

Uriel Tsachor

Tsachor’s students Sasha Burdin and Soo Eun Choi will perform works by Beethoven and Nikolas Medtner. Following a brief intermission, Tsachor will perform Brahms’ Intermezzo Op. 117/1 in E flat Major and Sonata No. 1 in C Major, Op. 1.

The rest of the 2012-2013 “Piano Sundays” season is as follows:

• Oct. 7, UI Visiting Assistant Professor Jason Sifford and UI Professor Alan Huckleberry’s; studio students.
• Nov. 4, performers to be announced later.
• Feb. 3, UI Professor Ksenia Nosikovaand studio students.
• March 3, Professor Nosikova and studio students in collaboration with the Iowa Chapter of American Liszt Society and Drake University students.
• April 7, UI Professor René Lecuona and studio students.

West Music Company and its president, Stephen L. West, have provided funding for Piano Sundays.

The UI School of Music is sponsoring a full rehabilitation of Rose, which is currently taking place at the Steinway factory in New York. The School of Music is part of the Division of Performing Arts in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

For more information on “Piano Sundays” or the UI Pentacrest Museums and Old Capitol Museum, visit www.uiowa.edu/oldcap/ or call 319-335-0548.