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September 20, 2006
Piano Concert to Feature Beethoven's Appassionata
Pennsylvania Academy of Music faculty member John Couch will present a piano recital featuring Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata as well as pieces by Bach, Chopin, Bartok, Barber and Ginastera on Sunday, October 22 at 3:00 p.m. at St. James Episcopal Church in downtown Lancaster. The concert is part of the Pennsylvania Academy of Music's 2006-07 concert series. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students and can be purchased at the Academy at 313 Liberty Place, Suite 210 or by calling 717.399.9733.
Chopin's Fantasie in F minor, Bartok's Rumanian Folk Dances, Bach's Prelude and Fugue in B flat minor, Barber's Excursions, and Ginastera's Danzas Argentinas will be included on the program along with the Appassionata.
Couch's extensive performing experience includes solo, chamber and orchestral appearances in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C., as well as recording projects which have aired on PBS. He has served on the faculty of Bloomsberg University and has presented master classes at Pennsylvania State University, Bucknell University, West Chester University, and Mansfield University.
The Pennsylvania Academy of Music is a non-profit pre-collegiate institution dedicated to the musical advancement of its students. Founded in 1990, the Academy attracts students from an immediate nine-county area as well as from around the world, who study disciplines ranging from instrumental, chamber music, orchestra, opera and vocal performance to music composition and theory, improvisation, accompanying ,jazz and recording. The Academy has a widely accomplished international faculty and is one of only 12 autonomous pre-collegiate music schools in the country accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music.
