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Guest Artist: Ian Jones
Ian Jones FRCM is Professor of Piano and Deputy Head of Keyboard at the Royal College of Music in London. In May 2014, Fellowship of the Royal College of Music was conferred on him by HRH King Charles.
He is Artistic Director of the World Piano Teachers Association International Piano Competition and often serves on the juries of other international piano competitions. He frequently examines and adjudicates at other leading conservatoires, including the Royal Academy of Music in London and regularly performs and conducts international masterclasses at conservatoires such as Stockholm’s Royal College of Music, Berlin University of the Arts and many keyboard faculties in USA.
His career as a Steinway Artist has taken him to all five continents. Appearances with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and National Symphony Orchestra at Lon-don’s Royal Festival Hall and Barbican Hall include critically acclaimed performances of Rachmaninov’s Second and Third Piano Concertos and Paganini Rhapsody as well as concertos by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Grieg and Schumann. He has appeared in Paris and throughout France as concerto soloist with the Ensemble International and has performed many of Mozart’s piano concertos in Europe and USA.
Recital
11 a.m. Schare Recital Hall (Maryott Music Building)
Masterclass
1 p.m.-3 p.m. Schare Recital Hall (Maryott Music Building)
Free and open to the public.