Carlson Recital to Feature Pinnacles of Piano

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Hartsville, SC — Coker College Music presents a faculty piano recital by Stephen Carlson, assistant professor of music, on Thursday, January, 13 at 8 p.m. in the Watson Theater of the Elizabeth Boatwright Coker Performing Arts Center. The program will feature Schumann’s “Symphonic Etudes” and Stravinsky’s Three Movements from “Petrushka,” which are considered two pinnacles of the piano literature. Carlson’s performance will also include selected works by Beethoven, Debussy and Scriabin. Admission to the recital is free and the public is invited to attend.

A member of the Coker music faculty since 2000, Carlson is a versatile soloist and chamber musician who has performed throughout the Midwest and the Southeast United States as well as eastern Canada. In March 2005, he makes his New York debut as a solo recitalist in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.

Carlson completed his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance and pedagogy at the University of Iowa where he studied with Uriel Tsachor. He is also a graduate of the University of Illinois and Gustavus Adolphus College, where he studied with Ian Hobson and John McKay, respectively. Carlson has taught at the University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Gustavus Adolphus College and St. Joseph’s School of Music in St. Paul, Minn.

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January 5, 2005