PRESS RELEASE -- September 14, 2008
International piano professor to perform recital
MOUNT VERNON, Ohio -- Dr. JoAnn Koh-Baker, professor of music at Mount Vernon Nazarene University, will present a complete recital of Frédéric Chopin's Piano Concerto in F minor, Op. 21, on Sunday, Sept. 14, at 3 p.m. in the R.R. Hodges Chapel/Auditorium. She will be assisted by John Reitz on a second piano.
Dr. Koh-Baker recently completed her spring 2008 sabbatical leave and returned from Singapore and Malaysia where she presented recitals and conducted master classes. She will also be featured in the School of Arts and Humanities Fall Symposium presenting a lecture on "Integrating Analysis into Performance: Formal Principles and the Hidden Program in Chopin’s Piano Concerto in F minor" with several demonstrations on two pianos on Thursday, Sept. 11, at 10:20 a.m., in the R.R. Hodges Chapel/Auditorium.
Both events are free and open to the public.
Mount Vernon Nazarene University is a private, four-year, intentionally Christian teaching university for traditional age students, graduate students and working adults. U.S. News & World Report ranks MVNU in the top 50 Best in the Midwest (Baccalaureate) institutions for the fifth year in a row. With a 400-acre main campus in Mount Vernon, Ohio, and eight additional satellite Adult and Graduate Studies campuses throughout the state, MVNU emphasizes academic excellence, spiritual growth and service to community and church. MVNU offers an affordable education to more than 2,670 students from 27 states and six countries/U.S. territories.
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