Fortepianist Leslie Tung to Offer Master Class and Recital, Nov. 8 - 9

November 3, 2015

Fortepianist Leslie Tung, professor emeritus of music at Kalamazoo College in Michigan, will perform as a guest presenter for the DePauw University School of Music's Faculty Select Series on Monday, November 9.  The program, which begins at 7:30 p.m., will take place in Thompson Recital Hall, located within DePauw's Green Center for the Performing Arts.

On Sunday, November 8, Tung will offer a piano master class from 6 to 8 p.m. at the same venue.

Both events are open to the public.

For Monday’s concert, Tung will perform on his own instrument -- a five-octave Viennese fortepiano completed in 1983 by Janine and Paul Poletti, based on the ca. 1795 instrument of Munich builder Johan Lodewijk Dulcken, currently in the collection of the Smithsonian Institute. His program includes Mozart's Ten Variations on “Unser dummer Pöbel meant,” Beethoven’s Eroica Variations and the famous “Moonlight” Sonata.

Tung has been praised for his “sense of history, combined with skill and heart” (Stereophile) and “artistic courage and conspicuous energy” (Indianapolis Star) for his interpretations on the classic fortepiano, the instrument favored by Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven.

He has been recitalist at the First International Festival and Conference on Fortepiano in Antwerp, the Michigan MozartFest, the Connecticut Early Music Festival, and Festival Indianapolis. He has also been soloist with the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival orchestra and with the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, and duo pianist with his wife Silvia Roederer at the Carinthian Summer Festival in Austria and at the Conservatories of Music at Beijing and Shanghai, China. In addition, he has appeared as soloist at the Conservatoire National de Région Chabrier, guest artist at the Academy for Performing Arts in Hong Kong and the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival.

General admission tickets to Monday’s Faculty Select recital are $5; tickets for seniors, children and all students are free. For more information and online purchases, visit www.depauw.edu/music/tickets. An automatic ticket kiosk, on the first floor of the Green Center, is available for making walk-up ticket purchases at any time of day using a credit or debit card. The venue’s box office will also be open beginning one hour prior to the performance.

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