Faculty & Friends concert series '07 debuts with acclaimed pianist

Janel Shoun  | 

Lipscomb University will ring in its 2007-08 concert season with a waltz through the life of Frederic Chopin. David Northington, a professor of piano at the University of Tennessee School of Music who last year released the CD “Chopin Waltzes,” will perform his signature works at 8 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 6, in Ward Hall.

Northington will provide listeners a musical biography of Chopin by performing 15 of his waltzes, written from 1829 to 1846. Lipscomb’s Faculty & Friends concert series is free and open to the public. The Lipscomb campus is located on Granny White Pike in Green Hills.

At his New York debut recital at Carnegie Recital Hall, the New York Times called David Northington “…an immensely gifted musician… who combines the technical mastery of a virtuoso with the musical sensitivity of a poet.”

Such critical accolades have followed Northington throughout the world in concerts and concerto engagements. His tours have included the United States, eastern and western Europe, Canada, China, and Russia. In addition to recitals and concerto engagements, he has given master classes at many of the leading conservatories in these countries.

David Northington’s masterful performances have won him first prizes in the Concert Artists Guild Competition, the unanimous Judges Prize at the Fourth Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, selection to the Artistic Ambassador Program sponsored by the United States Information Agency and many more honors.

As a teacher, Northington has won the Tennessee Music Teachers Association’s Teacher of the Year Award and the Tennessee Governor’s School of the Arts “Outstanding Teacher Award.”

The next Faculty & Friends concert will be held Sept. 20, featuring soprano Amy Jarman, and Lipscomb’s own pianist Jerome Reed.

For more information, contact the Lipscomb University Department of Music at 966.5929 or 800.333.4358, ext. 5929.