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Korean muscian Seong-Jin Cho sits facing his piano with both arms posed and ready to hit the keys.

Six questions with piano soloist Seong-Jin Cho

10/26/16

Fans call Seong-Jin Cho’s playing style “miraculously fluid” and “heaven.” One Japanese follower says Cho's performances reignited her love affair with piano music. Who is this piano prodigy from Seoul with swooning fans worldwide? Cho will be the featured soloist for Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37, with Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra on Oct. 28 at Eisenhower Auditorium.

Faculty pianist Jose Ramon Mendez to present solo recital Oct. 27

10/24/16

Penn State piano faculty member Jose Ramon Mendez will present a public solo recital as part of the Marian Garcia International Competition and Teacher Workshop at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27 in Esber Recital Hall. Admission is free.

Violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv to present recital Sept. 14

9/8/16

Solomiya Ivakhiv, a violin and viola professor at the University of Connecticut, will present a guest recital at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 14 in Esber Recital Hall. The recital, titled "Ukraine–Journey to Freedom: A Century of Classical Music for Violin and Piano," will also feature pianist Angelina Gadeliya, a faculty member at the University of Colorado.

Piano professor emeritus receives rave review for Beethoven CDs

1/26/16

Piano professor emeritus Steven Smith's monumental CD recording project titled "Piano Masterworks of Beethoven" has received a laudatory review by "American Record Guide," the country's oldest and most prestigious classical music review magazine.

The 11-CD set includes all 32 Beethoven sonatas and the Diabelli Variations, as well as Bagatelles Op. 126, and Rondos Op. 51. All were recorded during live performances at Penn State between 2009 and 2012.

Piano student wins state honors

11/25/15

First-year Penn State doctoral piano student Francisco Montero won the state Music Teachers National Association’s “Young Artist Performance” division on Nov. 8 at Elizabethtown College. He will now move on to compete at the Eastern Division level in Glassboro, N.J., on Jan. 23-24. Francisco’s competition repertoire was Alexander Scriabin’s “Sonata No.5, Op.53” and Franz Liszt’s “Spanish Rhapsody, S.254, R.90.” He is a piano student of Penn State professor Jose Ramon Mendez.

'I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change' : Penn St. Centre Stage

7/9/12

Rehearsal July 9, 2012 for musical comedy running July 18 to Aug. 4 at Penn State Downtown Theatre

President's Concert 2011

A Passion for Dance

11/30/10

At the final Research Unplugged event of the fall semester, the audience was treated to an intimate performance and conversation. Music theory professor Eric McKee and student Mi-Jin Lee presented "Chopin and the Romantic Imagination: A Lecture/Recital Commemorating Chopin's Bicentennial Year."