September 7, 2006
College to host pianist Steven Mayer for Piano Series debut
What: Steven Mayer, pianist
When: Friday, Oct. 6, 8 p.m.
Where: Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts, South Puget Sound Community
College
Admission: Tickets are $20 for general admission, $15 staff and seniors, and $10 for students
with valid I.D. Tickets available at www.spscc.ctc.edu/CFA/, or by calling (360) 596-5501. Tickets are also available at the door up to two hours prior to show.
OLYMPIA --South Puget Sound Community College will open its 2006 Piano Series with a performance by Steven Mayer, featuring music from Lizst, Mozart and Art Tatum. The debut will take place on Friday, Oct. 6 at 8 p.m. in the Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts.
Credited with “piano playing at its most awesome” (The New York Times), pianist Steven Mayer performs recitals and concerts worldwide. Mayer is the winner of the 1992 Grand Prix du Disque Lizst for his ASV world-premiere recording of Liszt’s Concerto Opus Posthumous and De Profundis with the London Symphony under Tamas Vasary. Mayer’s album Lizst vs. Thalberg, also for ASV Records, was featured as Recording of the Month in Classical CD Magazine.
After a prize-winning performance at the Third Carnegie Hall International American Music Competition, Mayer has played a unique repertoire of classic jazz, like Art Tatum, Fats Waller and Jelly Roll Morton, at a number of worldwide festivals. In this South Puget Sound Community College performance, the audience will be graced with a sampling of both his classical and jazz repertoire.
The performance will be held Oct. 6 at 8 p.m. in the main theater of the Minnaert Center for the Arts at South Puget Sound Community College. Tickets are $20 general admission, $15 for staff or seniors, and $10 for students. Tickets are available on the web at www.spscc.ctc.edu/CFA/, or by calling (30) 596-5501. Tickets are also available at the door up to two hours prior to show.