Russian Pianist to Perform at UCO

April 23, 2007

World-renowned pianist and UCO

Artist-in-Residence Valery Kuleshov will perform a solo concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 29, in the university’s Mitchell Hall Theater.

This performance will include the U.S. premiere of Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky and Igor Huddle, as well as works by Franz Josef Haydn, Frederic Chopin and Sergei Rachmaninov.

Kuleshov, called one of the most brilliant virtuosos of the new generation, has studied with some of the world’s most acclaimed musicians and performed in concert halls throughout the world, including the Milan Conservatory in Italy, the Great Halls of the Moscow Conservatory and New York’s Carnegie Hall.

The Dallas Morning News has described Kuleshov’s playing as “pyrotechnical rockets of sound.”

Tickets are $25 for adults, $20 for seniors and $4 for students. For more information, call the Mitchell hall box office at (405) 974-3375.

Pictured: World-renowned pianist and UCO Artist-in-Residence Valery Kuleshov.

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