Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Cocchiarella brings multimedia performance to USI
Cocchiarella
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Wendy Knipe Bredhold Media Relations Specialist, News & Information Services 812/461-5259 The 26-year-old concert pianist and composer has been an active pioneer of the multi-media concert performance, combining his own nature photography with his music. Since 2005, he has released three albums, including works by Handel, Schubert, Chopin, Mussorgsky, Schumann, and Brahms, on his label, Mr. Owl Productions. Cocchiarella graduated from Indiana University in 2004. A professor by age 23, he has lectured and taught master classes at Busan National University and GloVil Art Hall in Korea, Brigham Young University in Hawaii, and Madisonville Community College and Georgetown College in Kentucky, and has served on the piano faculty at the University of Evansville. His competition prizes include the Best Solo Performance Award in the Corpus Christi International Competition, top prizes in the Music Teachers' National Association piano competition, the National Foundation for Advancement of the Arts music competition, the National Society of Arts and Letters Competition, the Indianapolis Concerto Competition, and the IU Concerto Competition. Cocchiarella lives in Bloomington, Indiana with his wife, pianist Jeeyoon Kim. An Evansville native, he will perform with the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra in a "Night with Nino!" on Saturday, October 24. Here are the UCC Speaker Series events for spring 2010: February 24, 2010 Global economist Dr. Noreena Hertz will lecture at 7 p.m. Wednesday, February 24, in Carter Hall in the University Center. In her #1 best-selling book The Silent Takeover, Hertz predicted that unregulated markets and massive financial institutions would have serious global consequences, impacting the ordinary citizen. Following the financial meltdown and recession of 2008-09, many commentators have described Hertz as "a visionary." March 19, 2010 At 2 p.m. Friday, March 19, also in Carter Hall, flutist Kelly Sulick and harpist Megan Stout will present an educational performance in advance of their "Beauty and Grandeur" concert on Saturday, March 20, with the Evansville Philharmonic. April 23, 2010 Finally, the USI College of Liberal Arts will present the 2010 Distinguished Scholar Lecture by acclaimed author Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio's "Voice of Books," at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 23, in Mitchell Auditorium in the Health Professions Center. Cheuse is the author of four novels, three collections of short fiction, and the memoir Fall Out of Heaven. He is a regular contributor to National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" as a book commentator. He teaches in the writing program at George Mason University and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. All programs in the UCC Speaker Series are free and open to the public. For more information, call Dr. Mark Krahling, director of the University Core Curriculum, at 812/464-1712. |
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