Julie Bees, an internationally recognized pianist, will present a guest artist recital at West Virginia University’s Creative Arts Center, Tuesday, Oct. 12, featuring works by J.S. Bach, Frederic Chopin, Claude Debussy and Robert Schumann.
The program begins at 8:15 p.m. in the Bloch Learning and Performance Hall (200A) and is free and open to the public.
In addition, Dr. Bees will present a piano master class Monday, Oct. 11, from 10 a.m. to noon in Room 424A of the CAC. This event is also free and open to the public.
Works on the program include: “Partita No. 4 in D Major, S. 828” by J. S. Bach (1685-1750); “Barcarolle, Opus 60” by Frederic Chopin (1810-1849); 1 and 2 from “Pr�ludes, Premier Livre” by Claude Debussy (1862-1918); and “Symphonic �tudes, Opus 13” (�tudes in the form of Variations) by Robert Schumann (1810-1856).
Bees is professor of piano at Wichita State University, where she is also director of the Konrad Wolff-Ilse Bing Chamber Music Endowment Award. She has played recital debuts in New York City at Merkin Hall, in Chicago on the Dame Myra Hess series, and in Washington, D.C. at the Phillips Collection. She has given several recital tours of Europe, including debuts in such major musical centers as Edinburgh, Glasgow, Vienna, Brussels, The Hague, Leipzig, Milan, Helsinki, Warsaw and St. Petersburg.
In 1993 she played recitals and taught master classes in mainland China and in Tokyo, Japan. She has also taught master classes in Hungary and in Finland.
She was a full scholarship student of Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore. After two years of further study at the Hochschule f�r Musik in Vienna, Austria, she was awarded a doctoral fellowship at the University of Colorado in Boulder, where she earned the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree.
For more information about the recital, contact the WVU College of Creative Arts at (304) 293-4359.
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CONTACT: Charlene Lattea, College of Creative Arts
304-293-4359, Charlene.Lattea@mail.wvu.edu
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