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Pianist Robert Palmer to perform
Tuesday
in Manchester College’s new recital
hall
 Virtuoso pianist Robert
Palmer performs at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 12 in Manchester College’s
new Wine Recital Hall. The recital is free, sponsored by the College
Music Department.
After his Carnegie Hall debut in 1979, The New
York Times heralded Palmer as “poised and thoughtful – he instantly
impressed as a splendid player. He cultivates a most beautiful, lucid
sound.”
For his Manchester College recital, Palmer will
perform Beethoven’s Andante in F Major, WoO 57; three preludes by
Debussy, Polonaise in F# Minor, Op. 44 by Chopin; Internezzo,
Op. 116, No. 4 and Internezzo, Op. 118, No. 6 by Brahms; and
Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24 by Brahms.
Palmer’s performances have been broadcast on
National Public Radio, and public television in the United States,
China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Spain. He has been presented in recital
by Community Concerts, a subsidiary of Columbia Artists and performs
throughout the United States, with engagements in Boston, Chicago,
Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia and
Washington, D.C.
Palmer, a Steinway Artist, has served as
artist-faculty at Ball State University since 1986, and currently is the
Mauzy-Porter Distinguished Professor of Music at Ball State. His awards
include prizes in the Joanna Hodges International Piano Competition and
the United States Informational Agency National Piano Competition
He has made eight tours in Asia and has engagements
scheduled in Canada, Germany and Thailand. As a chamber musician, Palmer
has joined recitals with musicians from the Paris Conservatoire, the
Metropolitan Opera Company, the New York Philharmonic and the St. Paul
Chamber Orchestra.
Manchester College dedicated its $1.2 million Wine
Recital Hall last weekend. The enlarged and completely renovated
structure includes stadium seating for 160, state-of-the art acoustics
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