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All concerts are in the Music Center, 6605 5th Avenue North, St. Petersburg, and are free, unless otherwise noted.


Session II 2011-2012

Date
Time
Event

Friday, February 17, 2012

7:30pm

Piano Concert Series: Dolores Gadevsky
Dr. Gadevsky is an Adjunct Professor at St. Petersburg College and Co-Director of the Sonatina-Sonata Festival, an annual spring event at SPC. She received the Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance from the Eastman School of Music. Before earning her DMA, she studied at the Music Academy in Vienna with Bruno Seidlhofer, where she received the Performer's Diploma. She was soloist with the Orquesta Filarmonica de Bogotá and with the Kern Philharmonic Orchestra, and performed the world première of the John Cowell Piano Concerto with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra in Washington, DC's Kennedy Center. Dolores Weller Gadevsky has served as piano faculty at Chautauqua Music Festival, Eastman School of Music, Los Angeles Conservatory, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Csehy Summer School of Music, and University of Central Arkansas, where she was also a member of the faculty trio.
$10 general admission. Free for SPC students and staff with ID

Friday, March 2, 2012

7:30pm

Piano Concert Series: Mary Kathleen Ernst
Mary Kathleen Ernst has received critical acclaim as “a vigorous advocate” of music by women composers. Among her many awards are top prizes at Spain’s Jose Iturbi International Piano Competition and a United States Information Service award for Outstanding Artistic and Human Qualities. In the United States, Ernst has been presented by the Kennedy Center, National Gallery of Art, Library of Congress in Washington, DC, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, National Public Radio and Television, Voice of America, and the Spanish Ministry of Culture. She has received major grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest, the Washington DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Her fourth CD, Tower of the Eight Winds, features music by Judith Shatin, released by Innova Records in 2011. A graduate of the Juilliard School, Ernst served on the faculties of the University of Virginia and Shepherd University in West Virginia. She is active in bringing music to all levels of education. Visit www.MaryKathleenErnst.com to learn more.
$10 general admission. Free for SPC students and staff with ID

Friday, March 16, 2012

7:30pm

Piano Concert Series: Rebecca Penneys
$10 general admission. Free for SPC students and staff with ID

Saturday, March 17, 2012

10:00am

Piano Master Class: Rebecca Penneys

Friday, April 13, 2012

7:30pm

Piano Concert Series: Xu Hui
$10 general admission. Free for SPC students and staff with ID

Friday, May 18, 2012

7:30pm

Piano Concert Series: Two Piano/Eight Hand Extravaganza
$10 general admission. Free for SPC students and staff with ID

Friday, June 8, 2012

9:00am

Sonatina-Sonata Festival

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Piano Concert Series


Nancy Smith,
Academic Department Chair

Dr. Jonathan Steele
, Dean of Humanities
and
Fine Arts

St. Petersburg College
Department of Music
P.O. Box 13489
St. Petersburg FL 33733


 

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