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BYU sophomore’s years of musical preparation began at the age of four

The second annual festival held by the Mormon Arts Center will take place June 28-30 at Columbia University in New York City. The festival will help fulfill the Mormon Arts Center’s mission to display, perform and promote Mormon art. More than two dozen events will be featured, including a keynote address by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. BYU faculty and staff presenting at the festival include Christian Asplund from the School of Music, Amy Easton Flake from the College of Religious Education, associate librarian Trevor Alvord, Marin Leggat Roper from the Department of Dance, Lance Larsen from the Department of English, Jeff Parkin and Kelly Loosli from the Department of Theatre and Media Arts. The presenters will be joined by fellow Mormon artists from “Angola, Argentina, Canada, China, Kuwait, Spain, and across the United States,” according to Mormon Arts Center co-director Glen Nelson. A full list of events can be found here. A highlight of the festival will be a piano recital by professor Scott Holden from the School of Music. The performance, titled “A Century of Mormon Music,” will be held at the new recital space Zankel Hall in Carnegie Hall. Holden will also perform a recital on BYU’s campus on June 26. Visit the Mormon Arts Center for more information.

by Marissa Ballantyne The American Piano Quartet, featuring Brigham Young University faculty artists Jeffrey Shumway, Robin Hancock and Scott Holden with guest artist Paul Pollei, will perform on Thursday, March 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall. Tickets are $10 or $7 with a BYU or student ID and can be purchased from the Fine Arts Ticket Office, at performances.byu.edu or by calling (801) 422-4322. The quartet will begin its performance with “Sac souci (Galop de bravoura)” by Joseph Ascher, “Five Hungarian Dances” by Johannes Brahms and the 'Suite Algerienne' by Camille Saint-Saens. After the intermission, the concert will conclude with “Daydream and Nightmare,” op. 94 by Lowell Liebermann, “Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune” by Claude Debussy and “Les Preludes” by Franz Liszt. Founded in 1984, the American Piano Quartet has performed several times overseas, including appearances in Japan, Brazil and Europe. For more information, contact Jeffrey Shumway at (801) 422-4922. Source: BYU News

by Brooke Eddington Scott Holden, a Juilliard School of Music alumnus and faculty pianist at Brigham Young University, will present a recital at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, April 6, in the Madsen Recital Hall. Admission is free. He will begin with a Haydn piece and then move on to the Nocturne in E flat Major, Op. 55 No. 2 and Ballade in A flat Major, Op. 47 by Chopin. Listeners will hear a set of valses by Ravel and a recent piece called “Young American Invention” by BYU faculty member Steven L. Ricks before intermission. Afterward, Holden will play a full set of Schumann. Holden continues an active career as soloist, chamber musician and teacher. He holds music degrees from the University of Michigan, Manhattan School of Music and the Juilliard School, where he was awarded the Horowitz Prize. In addition to his American studies, he also spent a year studying and performing in Budapest at the Liszt Academy where he was a Fulbright Scholar. His 1996 Carnegie Hall debut recital was a result of winning first prize in the 1996 Leschetizky International Piano Competition. It received high critical praise in the New York Concert Review. In demand as a performer, this season will bring him to American venues in Michigan, Ohio, Washington D.C., Vermont, Texas, Idaho and Utah, as well as Mexico and Germany. He has taught courses at the Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music and is also a member of BYU’s American Piano Quartet. For more information, contact Scott Holden at (801) 422-7713. Source: BYU News