Arts & Culture

Guest Artist to Demonstrate the Power of Marimba

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 10, 2013) — Musician Andy Harnsberger will present a free public concert featuring the marimba at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 13, at the University of Kentucky Singletary Center for the Arts Concert Hall.

Harnsberger, whose performances are described as "a vivid demonstration of the power of music" by the Washington Post, enjoys a versatile career as a performer and an educator at Lee University in Cleveland, Tenn. He has performed in a variety of settings across the United States, Europe, Australia and Japan, and presents numerous solo recitals and clinics throughout the country each year. He has been a featured solo artist at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, Spoleto Festival USA and Piccolo Spoleto Festival.

A guest clinician at many Percussive Arts Society Days of Percussion, Harnsberger's compact disc, “Vertigo,” has also drawn acclaim from the Percussive Arts Society.

For further information on the Andy Harnsberger concert, contact James Campbell,

director of UK Percussion Studies, at 859-552-7866 or j.b.campbell@uky.edu.

The UK School of Music at the UK College of Fine Arts has garnered a national reputation for high-caliber education in opera, choral and instrumental music performance, as well as music education, composition, and theory and music history.

MEDIA CONTACT: Whitney Hale, 859-257-8716; whitney.hale@uky.edu