By Kasiana Pettus
College of Fine Arts and Communication Media Office
DuoCorde, the husband-and-wife piano duo of Mark Anderson and Michelle Mares, will perform in the Snow Fine Arts Center Recital Hall on the University of Central Arkansas campus at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 24. The performance is free and open to the public.
The couple will perform music of Danish composer Julius Röntgen during the concert.
“The Mares-Anderson duo is certainly one of the best piano teams in the country,” said Neil Rutman, Klipsch artist-in-residence and professor of music at UCA.
Vancouver native Mares began studying music at age 4. She gave her first full-length recital at age 10, and the same year she appeared as a soloist with the Mozarteum Orchestra in Saltzburg, Austria. When she was 12, she studied for a year in Germany with Heinz Kammerling.
She leads an active performing career in Canada and Europe spanning the entire repertoire as a soloist and chamber musician. Mares has performed with virtually every major orchestra in Canada as a soloist, and she has performed with a number of orchestras in Europe, including Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Basel Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Polish Chamber Orchestra and the Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra. She currently serves on the piano faculty at the University of Vancouver.
Anderson, a native of the San Francisco Bay area, is a Steinway Artist and founder of Röntgen Piano Trio. His solo career includes 13 CDs on Nimbus Records. He has performed at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Zurich’s Tonhalle, London’s Wigmore Hall and Tokyo’s Bunka Kaikan, among others. Currently, Anderson teaches piano, piano pedagogy and chamber music at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
For more information, contact Rutman at neilr@uca.edu or (501) 450-5767.
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