Piano Sundays, a series of free public concerts presented by the University of Iowa Pentacrest Museums, will resume its 2013-14 season Feb. 2, in the Senate Chamber of the Old Capitol Museum. “Mostly Liszt” begins at 1:30 p.m. and features the works of 19th century virtuoso Franz Liszt.
UI Professor Ksenia Nosikova, University of Northern Iowa Professor Dmitri Vorobiev, and their students will perform selected works of Liszt, Beethoven, and Chopin on a restored 1878 Centennial Style Steinway Concert Grand Piano, also known as Rose.
Nosikova is a professor of piano in the UI School of Music. She received her undergraduate and masters’ degrees from the Moscow Conservatory and her doctorate from the University of Colorado. Among her numerous critically acclaimed recordings are Liszt’s complete Years of Pilgrimage. She is an Honorable Professor of Music at the Shenyang Normal and Wenzhou Universities in China and a guest artist faculty member of the Schlern and Amalfi Coast Music Festivals in Italy.
Vorobiev is assistant professor of piano at the UNI School of Music. He is the founder and artistic director of the Midwest Piano Competition, which is set to launch in Cedar Falls this coming June. Educated at the Moscow State Conservatory, North Carolina School of the Arts, Manhattan School of Music, and the University of Michigan, Vorobiev is also the artistic director and leading teacher of the Leipzig Summer Piano Institute in Germany.
The UI School of Music is a unit of the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
For more information on the Piano Sundays series, contact the Old Capitol Museum at 319-335-0546.
Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all UI-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program, contact the Old Capitol Museum in advance at 319-335-2010.