Summary of Dissertation Recitals One Lecture Recital and Two Piano Recitals

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Thursday, December 20, 2012, 8:00 PM, Walgreen Drama Center, Stamps Auditorium. Program: Sonata in C-sharp Minor No. 21, Sonata in D-flat Major No. 88 by Antonio Soler; Sonata in F Minor No. 23, Op. 57 (“Appassionata”) by Ludwig van Beethoven; Sechs Klavierstücke, Op. 118 by Johannes Brahms; Etude Transcendante, S. 139, No. 4 (“Mazeppa”) by Franz Liszt.

Sunday, April 28, 2013, 2:00 PM, Moore Building, Britton Recital Hall. Assisted by Jesse Donner, tenor. “Text and Meaning in Liszt’s Années de Pèlerinage, Deuxième Année – Italie.” This lecture recital examined the transformation from art song to piano writing and its influence on phrasing and interpretation in Sonetto No. 104 del Petrarca. The lecture also explored the significance of thematic transformation, programmatic meaning, symbolic keys, and other traits in Après une Lecture de Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata. Program: Pace non trovo, Sonetto No. 104 del Petrarca, S. 270/1 for tenor and piano, Sonetto No. 104 del Petrarca, S. 158/1 for piano solo, Après une Lecture de Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata by Franz Liszt. Sunday, May 26, 2013, 5:00 PM, Walgreen Drama Center, Stamps Auditorium. Program: Sonata in E Major No. 30, Op. 109 by Ludwig van Beethoven; Deux Poèmes, Op. 32, Etude in F-sharp Minor Op. 8, No. 2, Etude in D-sharp Minor Op. 8, No. 12, Sonata No. 9, Op. 68 (“Black Mass”), Sonata in F-sharp Major No. 4, Op. 30, Fantasy in B minor Op. 28 by Alexander Scriabin.