Guest Pianists to Perform at UW Nov. 21

The University of Wyoming Department of Music will host guest pianists Duo Mundi in a recital at 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, in the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts concert hall. The recital is free and open to the public.

Duo Mundi, composed of George Lopez and Gulimina Mahamuti, will present "Latin Fire," featuring works by Leonard Bernstein, Jose Elizondo, Waldemar Henrique, Ernst Mahle, Fazil Say and Errollyn Wallen; and a paraphrase from Dizzy Gillespie's "Manteca" from op. 129 by Nikolai Kapustin.

Lopez and Mahamuti have captivated global audiences with their innovative and diverse programming styles. The duo have explored music for both one piano four hands and two piano four hands in the standard and contemporary repertoire as well as commissioned new works by national and international composers.

The duo have performed in venues around the world, including standing-room-only concerts and a landmark debut at New York City's Steinway Hall. They have since become a fixture on the New York music scene, performing at premier venues.

As esteemed and committed pedagogues and clinicians, the duo give numerous workshops, masterclasses and lectures at universities, conservatories and music organizations in the U.S. and abroad. Recently, they organized and hosted a two-day Klavierfest on artificial intelligence and its impact on music at Bowdoin College in Maine.

Mahamuti, an internationally acclaimed Chinese-American pianist, performs extensively as a soloist and chamber musician in major cities in the U.S., Canada, China, Denmark, Hungary and Turkey, with broadcasts on radio and state television.

She teaches at Bowdoin College and previously taught as an assistant professor of music at Ohio Wesleyan University and Capital University. She is a Music Teachers National Association certified teacher of music and serves on the association's national committee of Representation and Advocacy.

Lopez, Bowdoin College's Robert Beckwith Artist-in-Residence, where he also conducts the college's symphony orchestra, has been a performer and educator for more than 25 years. He has been featured across the globe as a recitalist, soloist with orchestra and collaborator, and is known for his thoughtful and expressive performances of standard repertoire.

Lopez, a champion of newly written works, recently premiered a piano concerto composed especially for him and performs styles of music ranging from jazz and ragtime to more contemporary improvisational styles.

For more information, call Kathy Kirkaldie, UW Fine Arts coordinator, at (307) 766-2160 or email [email protected].