Piano concert features works by Chopin, Beethoven

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Pianist Reena Berger

Dr. Reena Berger, assistant professor of piano and head of the piano department at Pittsburg State University, will perform in concert at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 16, at Northwest's Charles Johnson Theater.

The special guest artist concert is being sponsored by the Northwest College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Music.

Berger, a native of Montreal, is the recipient of numerous prizes, awards and grants. She studied at the McGill Conservatory of Music, the Rubin Academy of Music (Tel Aviv University), the New England Conservatory of Music and the University of Montreal.

She has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in Canada, the United States, Israel, China, Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, and her broadcast credits include "Off the Record," a program produced by WGBH, Boston's leading public radio station.

In 2004, Berger traveled to China, where she played during the China/Harbin Summer Music Festival and gave master classes and lectures at Harbin Normal University.

Since moving to the United States in 2000, Berger has presented guest artist recitals and master classes at several universities and appeared on the touring rosters of both the Kansas Arts Commission and the Mid-America Arts Alliance.

A former teaching assistant at the New England Conservatory of Music, she later lectured in piano at the University of Montreal. Her students at Pittsburg State, where she has taught since 2000, have won numerous competitions and awards.

Berger's Northwest program will include works by Beethoven, Clara Schumann, Chopin and the contemporary composers Gyorgy Kurtag and Denis Gougeon. The concert will conclude with Sonata No. 2 in b-flat minor (opus 36) by Sergei Rachmaninoff.

For more information, please contact:

Anthony Brown,
News Bureau Manager
E-Mail: abrown@nwmissouri.edu
Phone (660) 562-1704
Fax (660) 562-1900

Northwest Missouri State University
219 Administration Building,
800 University Drive
Maryville, MO 64468

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