Charis Dimaras, assistant professor of music performance and coordinator of collaborative studies in the School of Music, will present a free piano recital on Monday, October 27. Celebrating the music of Sergei Prokofiev, who died 50 years ago, the performance will begin at 8:15 p.m. in the Hockett Family Recital Hall in the Whalen Center.
The program will feature solo piano works and faculty soprano Patrice Pastore will join guest soprano Linda Larson and violinist Rebecca Ansel in vocal and instrumental chamber music.
Dimaras has frequently performed as soloist with orchestras as well as in solo and chamber music concerts throughout Europe and the United States. He has appeared with the Greek National Symphony Orchestra, the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, and the MAV Hungarian Symphony Orchestra. In addition, he has performed at the Salzburg Mozarteum International summer concerts, the Brighton and Newcastle International Chamber music festivals, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Juilliard Theater, and Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Dimaras holds a doctorate from the Manhattan School of Music, a master's degree from Juilliard, and a diploma from the Royal College of Music in London. He also holds a soloist's diploma from the Contemporary School of Music in Athens.
Formerly on the faculty of the University of Miami summer program in Salzburg, Dimaras was also a teaching fellow at the Royal College of Music and Ethnikon National Conservatory in Athens. He has won first prize in the Conferenza Musicale Mediterranea and top prize at the Palmo d'Oro International Chamber Music.
Contributed by Erik Kibelsbeck
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