Contact: Dustin Barnes
STARKVILLE, Miss.--Mississippi State University again is tuning up to host its annual Mississippi Piano Showcase.
Being held on campus for the 22nd year, the 2006 musical event will take place June 4-9. In addition to providing advanced-level instruction for 20 regional high school students, the showcase will feature successive public concerts in the McComas Hall theater.
"Our top mission is to provide top-quality, master-class instruction for talented high school students," said showcase director Jackie Edwards-Henry of MSU's department of music education. "We'll also provide workshops for teachers."
Student master classes will be led by Tony Caramia, a professor at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music, and Arizona State University professor Walter Consand.
The teacher workshops will be conducted by Edwards-Henry and piano faculty colleagues Rosangela Sebba and Wendy Payton.
The concert schedule includes:
--June 4, 4 p.m., Caramia, performing a mix of jazz and ragtime selections;
--June 6, 7:30 p.m., Consand, classical selections at the next concert;
--June 8, 7:30 p.m., MSU faculty concert; and
--June 9, 10:30 a.m., showcase student concert.
Admission to the Caramia and Consand performances is $10 for all. The faculty concert is free to all MSU faculty and students with proper identification; $10 for all others. The concluding student concert is free to all.
For more information about the 2006 Mississippi Piano Showcase, including student enrollment, visit http://music.msstate.edu/mps/ or call (662) 325-3070.