Spanish Pianist Jordi Camell's Concert to Showcase Music from the Mediterranean
Jordi Camell playing Fantasia in C Major.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 8, 2016) — The University of Kentucky School of Music will present award-winning pianist Jordi Camell in a concert featuring music from the Mediterranean Sea. The concert will begin 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 12, in room 107 (former Tuska Gallery) in the Fine Arts Building. The concert is free and open to the public.
As part of the concert program, Camell will perform a variety of works by several pianists and composers from the Mediterranean region including Spanish musicians Isaac Albéniz, Frederic Mompou and Pau (Pablo) Casals and French musician Francis Poulenc. It will also include music from celebrated Spanish pianist and composer Enrique Granados on the centenary of his death.
Camell, a pianist with an extended professional career, is a lively musician open to all styles of music. He received his training in Tarragona, Barcelona, Paris and London. He recently performed his first solo show, "X-Ray, Radiography of an Interior Landscape." Camell is professor of piano and head of the Department for Classical and Contemporary Music at the Catalan Music University Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya.
During Camell's visit, he will also offer a master class at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 12, in room 17 of the Fine Arts Building. This class is also free and open to the public.
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.
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