Edward Auer to Give Piano Recital at DePauw
February 27, 2001
February 27, 2001, Greencastle, Ind. - The DePauw University School of Music will present a piano recital on Friday, March 9, at 7:30 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center, Thompson Recital Hall on DePauw University's campus. Edward Auer, professor of piano in the School of Music at Indiana University will be on campus to perform music of Schubert, Mendelssohn and Franck. It is free and open to the public.
Acclaimed for his pianistic virtuosity and eloquence, Auer was the first American to win a prize in the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw. He has performed with the NHK, Yomiuri and Osaka Symphonies in Japan, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Atlanta, Baltimore, and Detriot Symphonies and the Orchestre National in Paris, 
and has recorded works of Chopin, Beethoven, Debussy and Rachmaninoff. Born in New York of Hungarian descent, Auer studied with Aube Tzerko and spent two years in Paris on a Fulbright Study Grant, winning prizes in five distinguished piano competitions.
For more information, contact Janice Bagwell, (765) 658-4379 or jbagwell@depauw.edu.