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News Release
Office of News and Information
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21218-2692
Phone: (410) 516-7160
Fax (410) 516-5251
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January 21, 2000
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Deborah Pankey Stewart
dps@jhu.edu,
410-516-7157
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Pianist Kevin Kenner Performs Chopin at
Hopkins
The Johns Hopkins University Office of Special Events
presents International
Chopin Competition winner Kevin Kenner in Fifteen Scenes From
the Life of
Chopin at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 20, in Shriver Hall, located
on the university's
Homewood campus, 3400 N. Charles St. in Baltimore. This event is
co-sponsored by the
Peggy and Yale Gordon Trust.
Commemorating the 150th anniversary of Chopin's death,
Kenner's multimedia
recital illustrates events in the composer's life through
paintings of places he lived and
visited and through letters by Chopin, his friends, and
contemporaries. University of
Maryland, Baltimore County, theater professor Sam McCready will
narrate.
A former student of renowned pianist and Peabody
Conservatory teacher Leon
Fleisher, Kenner is the Van Cliburn International Piano
Competition Triple Prize
Winner. He has been soloist with the Halle Orchestra, BBC
Symphony Orchestra, and
the Warsaw Philharmonic as well as with symphony orchestras like
San Francisco, Salt
Lake City, Baltimore, and Rochester. Kenner has been invited to
work with many
renowned conductors, including the late Sir Charles Groves,
Andrew Davis, Stanislaw
Skrowaczewski, Jiri Belohlavck, and Kazimierz Kord. This past
year marked his
Carnegie Hall debut and his fifth appearance at London's Wigmore
Hall. He has
recorded the Chopin Preludes for Polygram and frequently records
for the BBC
Symphony Orchestra and Polish Radio.
Tickets are $16 for general admission; $13 for senior
citizen; $10 for full-time
students with ID. Group discounts are available. For
information, call the Office of Special Events, 410-516-7157.
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