Concert: William Westney
The American pianist William Westney will perform a solo recital at Department of musicology Thursday 18 February. The concert is part of a research project within the Nordic Network for the Integration of Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics, and will be recorded for use in analysis of music-related body movement.
Program
| Sonata in D major (Hob. XVI: 24) I Allegro |
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) |
| Mephisto Waltz (from Lenau’s “Faust”) | Franz Liszt (1811-1886) |
| Over the Rainbow |
Harburg/Arlen |
| That Old Black Magic | Harold Arlen arr. Cy Walter |
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Fantasy on “Porgy and Bess” |
Gershwin/Wild |
About William Westney
William Westney is the Browning Artist-in-Residence and Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Music at Texas Tech University. He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Yale University School of Music and was the top piano prizewinner in the Geneva International Competition. Educational honors include TTU’s highest distinction, the Chancellor’s Council Distinguished Teaching Award (2008), the Yale School of Music’s “Certificate of Merit,” and a Fulbright “Senior Specialist” grant to Asia (2006). For the 2009-10 academic year he is dividing his time between the U.S. and the University of Southern Denmark (Odense), where he has been named Hans Christian Andersen Guest Professor, in an interdisciplinary research role involving philosophy and pedagogy. His innovative “Un-Master Class” workshop, which was profiled in a New York Times article, has been held in Vienna, Beijing, London, Seoul, Melbourne, Toronto, and many other prominent music centers. Dr. Westney’s book The Perfect Wrong Note (2003), received enthusiastic reviews internationally and is now in its second printing, having sold over 10,000 copies worldwide.
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