University Letter

The Department of Music will present the final in a series of Piano Master Classes for local teachers and students at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 28. These classes are held in the Josephine Campbell Recital Hall of the Hughes Fine Arts Center, and are free and open to the public. The goal of the class is to have strong ties to the people of UND's surrounding areas and to discuss the piano performance and pedagogy related matters through performance to sustain the high quality in piano performance and teaching.

To find out more about UND’s piano program, check out its new web page: http://arts-sciences.und.edu/music/piano-studio/.

Support for the UND Piano Master class includes Poppler’s Music, Grand Forks; Schmitt Music, Fargo and Edina (Minneapolis); and Scott’s Music, Grand Forks.

• 10 a.m. to noon, Saturday, April 28--Eugene Alcalay (Steinway Artist/University of Wisconsin-Platteville www.uwplatt.edu/~alcalaye/060706.htm.
• 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., Sunday, April 29 -- Alcalay will present a chamber music with Simona Barbu, a cellist and faculty member in the UND Department of Music. Barbu holds the Burgum Endowed Chair of Cello.

Useful links:

• Music Department: http://arts-sciences.und.edu/music/
• Piano Program: http://arts-sciences.und.edu/music/piano-studio/

For more information, contact Nariaki Sugiura, assistant professor of piano, Music, at 777-2839 or nariaki.sugiura@und.edu.

-- Juan Miguel Pedraza, writer/editor, University Relations, 777-6571, juan.pedraza@und.edu.