Pianist Shannon Wettstein to Perform at Coker

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Hartsville, SC — Pianist Shannon Wettstein will perform at Coker College on Thursday, February 24 at 8 p.m. in Watson Theater of the Elizabeth Boatwright Coker Performing Arts Center. The recital will include works by Ludwig van Beethoven and Clara Schumann as well as contemporary composers Jeffrey Mumford and David Evan Thomas. Admission is free and the public is invited to attend.

An assistant professor of music at Minnesota’s Bemidji State University, Wettstein has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States and internationally, including New York’s Lincoln Center, the Brevard Music Festival and the Aspen Music Festival. She is the winner of 2003 American Composers Forum-Jerome Foundation Composer Commissioning Grant, the Doris Myrtle Wood Memorial Scholarship given by the Mu Phi Epsilon International Music Fraternity, and the Merle Montgomery Doctoral grant given by the Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation.

Wettstein’s solo CD of music by Chopin, Berg, Brian Ferneyhough and Debussy was released in April 2003 on the Centaur label. Her recording of the music of Mark Applebaum was released in November 2003 on the Tzadik label., and a new recording, “Disciplines,” was released in November 2004 on the Innova label.

Wettstein earned a Master of Music with honors from New England Conservatory and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of California at San Diego. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree with highest distinction from the University of Kansas. Wettstein’s teachers have included Aleck Karis, Stephen Drury, Sequiera Costa, Richard Angeletti and Claude Frank.

This event is partially funded by a grant from the Minnesota Region 2 Arts Council with funding from the McKnight Foundation.

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Febraury 15, 2005