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Guest Recital: Peter Collins, piano

February 16

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Add to Calendar 2025-02-16 15:00:00 2025-02-16 17:00:00 Guest Recital: Peter Collins, piano Join us as we welcome a special guest to campus - Peter Collins, piano. Mr. Collins will present a program of sonatas from Haydn, Beethoven, and Schubert. Peter Collins resides in New Orleans and is active as a performer, independent piano teacher and music researcher.  He holds the distinction of Professor Emeritus from Missouri State University where he taught and served as keyboard area coordinator for twenty-five years.   He received his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the Peabody Conservatory under the instruction of Lillian Freundlich.  After winning awards in several piano competitions he was granted the Regents’ Fellowship at the University of Michigan to pursue his Doctor of Musical Arts degree with Professor Louis Nagel.  While on the faculty of Missouri State, Peter Collins received College and University Awards in teaching and research.  He originated the Missouri Chamber Players and toured Scandinavia several times with members of the ensemble in concerts of music by American composers.  Other important European performances include Philharmonia Hall and the Chopin Institute in Warsaw, the Liszt Academy in Budapest and the Polish National Orchestra.   Peter Collins has completed ten compact-disc recording projects (for the Albany, MSR and Centaur labels) focusing on works of living American composers, music by women composers, original arrangements and transcriptions, and piano music of nineteenth-century New Orleans.  He has performed locally since 1980 in many classical music venues — as soloist with the New Orleans Symphony, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and the Jeffeson Performing Arts Society Orchestra, and in recitals sponsered by the Musical Arts Society of New Orleans, The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Jazz Museum.    The First Viennese School (approximately 1765 -1828) refers to the three most influential composers active in the important musical center Vienna: Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven.  While Haydn and Mozart were Austrian, Beethoven was born in Germany but made Vienna his home early in his career.  Franz Schubert is generally also included in the First Viennese School.  Born in Vienna considerably later than the other composers, his short life ended only a year after Beethoven’s.  Encompassing the high Classical era and the flowering of Romanticism with Schubert and late Beethoven, the First Viennese School provides countless models for composers of future generations and remains at the core of all piano literature.  During the five-year course of The Sonata Series, Peter Collins will perform the complete piano sonatas of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert as well as the important sonatas of Haydn in a series of thirty-two recitals.  Visit petercollinspianist.com to view the entire series as well as scheduling updates and addresses of recital venues. Season II (2024-2025) October 6 - St. Charles Avenue Presbyterian Church November 17 - Christ Church Cathedral January 5 - John Calvin Presbyterian Church February 16 - Loyola University Nunemaker Auditorium March 30 - Christ Church Cathedral May 18 - Trinity Episcopal Church (All recitals at 3 PM)   Please be aware that details are subject to change. Check back for up-to-date info, or sign up for our mailing list! This event is free and open to the public. /*-->*/ Nunemaker Auditorium /*-->*/ Qifan Wu America/Chicago public

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Join us as we welcome a special guest to campus - Peter Collins, piano. Mr. Collins will present a program of sonatas from Haydn, Beethoven, and Schubert.

Peter Collins resides in New Orleans and is active as a performer, independent piano teacher and music researcher.  He holds the distinction of Professor Emeritus from Missouri State University where he taught and served as keyboard area coordinator for twenty-five years.  

He received his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the Peabody Conservatory under the instruction of Lillian Freundlich.  After winning awards in several piano competitions he was granted the Regents’ Fellowship at the University of Michigan to pursue his Doctor of Musical Arts degree with Professor Louis Nagel. 

While on the faculty of Missouri State, Peter Collins received College and University Awards in teaching and research.  He originated the Missouri Chamber Players and toured Scandinavia several times with members of the ensemble in concerts of music by American composers.  Other important European performances include Philharmonia Hall and the Chopin Institute in Warsaw, the Liszt Academy in Budapest and the Polish National Orchestra.  

Peter Collins has completed ten compact-disc recording projects (for the Albany, MSR and Centaur labels) focusing on works of living American composers, music by women composers, original arrangements and transcriptions, and piano music of nineteenth-century New Orleans.  He has performed locally since 1980 in many classical music venues — as soloist with the New Orleans Symphony, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and the Jeffeson Performing Arts Society Orchestra, and in recitals sponsered by the Musical Arts Society of New Orleans, The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Jazz Museum.   

The First Viennese School (approximately 1765 -1828) refers to the three most influential composers active in the important musical center Vienna: Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven.  While Haydn and Mozart were Austrian, Beethoven was born in Germany but made Vienna his home early in his career.  Franz Schubert is generally also included in the First Viennese School.  Born in Vienna considerably later than the other composers, his short life ended only a year after Beethoven’s.  Encompassing the high Classical era and the flowering of Romanticism with Schubert and late Beethoven, the First Viennese School provides countless models for composers of future generations and remains at the core of all piano literature. 

During the five-year course of The Sonata Series, Peter Collins will perform the complete piano sonatas of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert as well as the important sonatas of Haydn in a series of thirty-two recitals.  Visit petercollinspianist.com to view the entire series as well as scheduling updates and addresses of recital venues.

Season II (2024-2025)

October 6 - St. Charles Avenue Presbyterian Church

November 17 - Christ Church Cathedral

January 5 - John Calvin Presbyterian Church

February 16 - Loyola University Nunemaker Auditorium

March 30 - Christ Church Cathedral

May 18 - Trinity Episcopal Church

(All recitals at 3 PM)

 

Please be aware that details are subject to change. Check back for up-to-date info, or sign up for our mailing list!

This event is free and open to the public.

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Add to Calendar 2025-02-16 15:00:00 2025-02-16 17:00:00 Guest Recital: Peter Collins, piano Join us as we welcome a special guest to campus - Peter Collins, piano. Mr. Collins will present a program of sonatas from Haydn, Beethoven, and Schubert. Peter Collins resides in New Orleans and is active as a performer, independent piano teacher and music researcher.  He holds the distinction of Professor Emeritus from Missouri State University where he taught and served as keyboard area coordinator for twenty-five years.   He received his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the Peabody Conservatory under the instruction of Lillian Freundlich.  After winning awards in several piano competitions he was granted the Regents’ Fellowship at the University of Michigan to pursue his Doctor of Musical Arts degree with Professor Louis Nagel.  While on the faculty of Missouri State, Peter Collins received College and University Awards in teaching and research.  He originated the Missouri Chamber Players and toured Scandinavia several times with members of the ensemble in concerts of music by American composers.  Other important European performances include Philharmonia Hall and the Chopin Institute in Warsaw, the Liszt Academy in Budapest and the Polish National Orchestra.   Peter Collins has completed ten compact-disc recording projects (for the Albany, MSR and Centaur labels) focusing on works of living American composers, music by women composers, original arrangements and transcriptions, and piano music of nineteenth-century New Orleans.  He has performed locally since 1980 in many classical music venues — as soloist with the New Orleans Symphony, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and the Jeffeson Performing Arts Society Orchestra, and in recitals sponsered by the Musical Arts Society of New Orleans, The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Jazz Museum.    The First Viennese School (approximately 1765 -1828) refers to the three most influential composers active in the important musical center Vienna: Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven.  While Haydn and Mozart were Austrian, Beethoven was born in Germany but made Vienna his home early in his career.  Franz Schubert is generally also included in the First Viennese School.  Born in Vienna considerably later than the other composers, his short life ended only a year after Beethoven’s.  Encompassing the high Classical era and the flowering of Romanticism with Schubert and late Beethoven, the First Viennese School provides countless models for composers of future generations and remains at the core of all piano literature.  During the five-year course of The Sonata Series, Peter Collins will perform the complete piano sonatas of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert as well as the important sonatas of Haydn in a series of thirty-two recitals.  Visit petercollinspianist.com to view the entire series as well as scheduling updates and addresses of recital venues. Season II (2024-2025) October 6 - St. Charles Avenue Presbyterian Church November 17 - Christ Church Cathedral January 5 - John Calvin Presbyterian Church February 16 - Loyola University Nunemaker Auditorium March 30 - Christ Church Cathedral May 18 - Trinity Episcopal Church (All recitals at 3 PM)   Please be aware that details are subject to change. Check back for up-to-date info, or sign up for our mailing list! This event is free and open to the public. /*-->*/ Nunemaker Auditorium /*-->*/ Qifan Wu America/Chicago public

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