Piano concert to delight with sounds and sights

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 21, 2024) — A concert featuring the talents of students in University of Kentucky’s Piano Creativity Lab aims to delight audiences not only with sounds, but imagery as well. This free public concert, “Making Music to Be Seen,” will be 7 p.m. Nov. 25 in the Singletary Center for the Arts Recital Hall.

Along with some beautiful music by such celebrated composers as Alexander Scriabin, Franz Liszt, Claude Debussy, Francis Poulenc, J.S. Bach, William Gillock and others, students will display their creativity in seeing music through pictures. Each student composed a story for a corresponding piece of music and selected images that best represent the story.

The concert will feature selections by both undergraduate and graduate students.

The UK Piano Creativity Lab is proud to have produced more than 30 winners of international and state music competitions, including the Vancouver International, Grand Prize Virtuoso International, Concert Artists International, World Grand Prix International Music Contest, American Protégé International Competition, the Kentucky Music Teachers Association Young Artist competition and multiple winners of UK’s Concerto Competition. To date, 11 current and former UK piano program students have performed solo at Carnegie Hall.

“While our students are trained in piano performance, they also get an intensive training in creativity and resourcefulness,” said UK Professor Irina Voro, D.M.A., who teaches piano, music performance and keyboards. “These skills help students adapt to the current demands of the job market and life in the fast-changing internationalized world.”

The UK School of Music, an academic department in the UK College of Fine Arts, has garnered national recognition for high-caliber education in opera; choral and instrumental music performance; music education; music therapy; theory and composition; and music history.