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Rebecca Penneys Schedules
Performance At TWU
9/24/04
DENTON — Internationally
acclaimed pianist Rebecca Penneys will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday,
Oct. 7 in Margo Jones Performance Hall, located at Oakland and Sawyer
streets on the Denton campus of Texas Woman’s University.
Admission is free.
An innovative educator,
Penneys also will teach a master class from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday,
Oct. 6 in Margo Jones Performance Hall. For more information, call
(940) 898-2500.
Her concert visit will
be a reunion of sorts for Dr. Richard Shuster, assistant professor
of piano at TWU, who was Penneys’ student at the Eastman School
of Music.
“She’s a
unique teacher because of her physical approach to playing piano,
using her body to express emotion at the piano and producing beautiful
sound,” he said. “She opened a new world for me and
inspired me to become a professional pianist.”
Penneys has received
widespread recognition in academic and medical circles for her ability
to teach a “Motion and Emotion” keyboard technique that
allows pianists to achieve individual performance goals without
physical strain or injury.
Penneys made her recital
debut at age 9 and performed as a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic
at the age of 11. At 17, she was awarded the Special Critics’
Prize for her performances at the Seventh International Chopin Piano
Competition in Warsaw, Poland. She went on to win the Most Outstanding
Musician prize at the Fifth Vianna Da Motta International Piano
Competition in Portugal, and was top prizewinner in the Second Paloma
O’Shea International Piano Competition in Spain.
Penneys is a founding
member of the acclaimed New Arts Trio, which twice has won the prestigious
Naumburg Award for Chamber Music. She has been professor of piano
at Eastman since 1980, and chairs the piano department at the Chautauqua
Institution.
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For Further Information
Contact:
Karen Treat
Senior Copywriter
Tel: (940) 898-3456
e-mail: ktreat@twu.edu
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