The Linfield College Department of Music will present “Keyboard Kapers: An Evening of Piano Music” on Friday, March 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the Delkin Recital Hall in the Vivian A. Bull Music Center at Linfield.
Linfield piano students of Albert Kim, assistant professor of music, including senior Ian Cox and junior Stephanie Anderson, will perform works by Bach, Mozart, Liszt and others. In addition, visiting artist Marcelo Lian and Kim will perform a duo-piano version of “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.” Lian will present a piano master class and lecture during his campus residency.
Kim joined the Linfield College Department of Music in 2013 and teaches piano, theory, chamber music and keyboard skills. He has performed throughout the United States and Europe in solo and chamber recitals, and collaborated with new music ensembles Signal and Eastman Musica Nova. He is a pianist and arranger for the Tabletop Opera, a convergent-media project that presents the comic-book opera adaptations of P. Craig Russell in live performances with original instrumental arrangements. He is also active as a composer and transcriber. Recent projects include a six-city teaching tour in China in summer 2014, and the world premieres of his solo transcription of Maurice Ravel’s “La Valse” and ensemble adaptation of Richard Strauss’s “Salome.” Kim earned his M.M. and D.M.A. from the Eastman School of Music and holds an A.B. in music from Harvard University, where he conducted the Toscanini Chamber Orchestra and the Dunster House Opera.
Lian is winner of several competitions including the Latin American Association of Pianists and Pedagogues Competition, Concorso Pianistico Il suono e il tempo, VI Franz Liszt Piano Competition, the Steinway Competition and V Beethoven Piano Competition. He co-founded and directed “Pianists of the Americas,” an annual piano festival in Portland that offers professional recitals and master classes for students of all ages and levels. Lian earned a master’s degree in piano pedagogy and a doctorate in piano performance from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
This concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call 503-883-2275 or visit linfield.edu/arts.
