Guest Artist Recital: Omri Shimron, Piano
Venue: Squires Recital Salon, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Saturday, April 14, 2012
Time: 8:00 - 11:00 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost:
General Public: $5.00 Senior Citizens: $3.00 Students: $3.00
Description:
Pianist Omri Shimron was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania but raised in Haifa, Israel. His work represents a range of musical interests spanning multiple specialties. A pianist by training, Shimron is a prolific performer whose repertoire choices are traditional yet increasingly contemporary.
A seasoned music theory pedagogue, Shimron has devoted himself to undergraduate instruction in a variety of settings ranging from high school to conservatory, liberal arts colleges and larger universities. His scholarship focuses on analysis and interpretation of tonal and post-tonal music, and the relationship between analysis, performance and the learning process. He has presented his work for the College Music Society and is a frequent guest in music departments nationwide.
Numerous collaborative and solo concerts have included sessions for WBFO and WXXI radio, the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, the America-Israel Cultural Foundation and the Sundays on the Island series in New York City. Venturing outside the US, he has given concerts at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France, Wolfson College at Oxford University, the Bursa State Conservatory, Turkey and the SoundsCAPE festival in Pavia, Italy (2008).
An assistant professor of music at Elon University, Shimron coordinates the music theory sequence and teaches keyboard proficiency. He completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in music from the University of Rochester (1997), and a Master of Music, Master of Arts in Music Theory Pedagogy and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the Eastman School of Music (2000, 2004) where his primary mentors included Rebecca Penneys, Steve Laitz and William Marvin. Before coming to Elon, Shimron taught at Hillsdale College and Eastern Mediterranean University in Cyprus.
Guest Artist Recitals are $5 general, $3 senior, and $3 student. Tickets are available at the venue door beginning one hour prior to the performance.
For more information, visit: http://www.music.vt.edu/department/calendar/index.php
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