Guest Pianist Jung-Eun Kang to Perform Aug. 28 at UW

The University of Wyoming Department of Music will host guest pianist Jung-Eun Kang Wednesday, Aug. 28, at 7:30 p.m. in the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts recital hall. The recital is free and open to the public.

The program will feature Haydn's Piano Sonata in C major, Hob. XVI:48; Bartok's Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, Op. 20; Ives' Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass.; and Liszt's "Années de Pèlerinage, Première Année: Suisse, S. 160."

A native of Seoul, South Korea, Kang graduated from the Korea National University of Arts. She received her Master of Music, Graduate Performance Diploma and Doctor of Musical Arts from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University.

Kang has won numerous competitions, including the grand prize in the Samic Competition in Korea; the Washington, D.C., Catholic University Competition; the Elizabeth R. Davis Memorial Piano Competition; and the Russell C. Wonderlic Memorial Competition. She also is a recipient of the Pauline Favin Memorial Award at the Peabody Institute.

An outstanding soloist, Kang frequently performs throughout major concert halls in South Korea. She also has appeared as a soloist with a number of major orchestras, including the Bucheon Philharmonic Orchestra, the Seoul String Ensemble, the Citiphilharmonic Orchestra and the KT Orchestra. Her performances have been broadcast on KBS.

Formerly a faculty member at the Preparatory Division of the Peabody Institute, Kang now serves as a professor at Jeju National University.

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