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Steinway Artist to open Dorothy MacKenzie Price Piano Series Oct. 12 |
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Angela Riddel |
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Oct 10, 2008
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Dr. Michael Boyd, UT professor of music and recently named Steinway Artist, will perform a concert for the Dorothy MacKenzie Price Piano Series Sunday, Oct. 12, at 3 p.m. in the Center for Performing Arts Recital Hall on Main Campus.
Each performer in the series conducts a recital, as well as a master class during which students can receive instruction and advice. Boyd’s master class will be held Saturday, Oct. 11, from 10 a.m. to noon in the Center for Performing Arts Recital Hall.
As a concerto soloist, Boyd has performed with the Rochester Philharmonic, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, the Dearborn Symphony and the Eastman Chamber Orchestra. Solo recitals have taken him across the country, performing frequently in California, New York, Wisconsin and Michigan. He recently gave a series of master classes and recitals in Greece. In March 2007, he was invited to perform on the opening concert of the American Liszt Society Festival at the San Francisco Conservatory, where he played the rarely heard original 1838 version of Liszt’s Paganini Etudes.
Most recently, Boyd was invited to give two lecture recitals in Spain. The first program focused on Andalusian influences in the keyboard sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti and Padre Antonio Soler and was given in the city where they both had royal appointments to the Spanish court, San Lorenzo de El Escorial. The second program was in Granada on Manuel de Falla’s Andalusian keyboard compositions. It was presented at the concert hall of the Manuel de Falla Archive.
Boyd’s studies culminated in master’s and doctoral degrees from the Eastman School of Music. He won first prize as pianist in the Kneisel Lieder Competition and played a radio broadcast recital from Carnegie Hall with Naumburg prize-winning violinist Ian Swensen while still a student. Boyd graduated from Eastman with that institution’s highest honor, the Performer’s Certificate.
In addition to teaching in UT’s Department of Music, he has been on the faculty of Indiana University’s Summer Piano Academy and the Chautauqua Summer Institution.
A reception for UT alumni will follow the free, public recital. Alumni are encouraged to RSVP by visiting the Alumni Association online at www.utoledo.edu/Alumni.
For more information on the free, public master class or recital, call the Music Department at 419.530.2448 or to go www.utoledo.edu/as/music.
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