National pianist featured at Lipscomb University Faculty & Friends Concert March 24

Janel Shoun | 

Lipscomb University’s next Faculty and Friends Concert will feature Caleb Harris, assistant professor of music at the University of Northern Colorado and respected pianist who has performed across the nation, at 8 p.m., Monday, March 24, in Ward Hall, on the Lipscomb campus in Green Hills. This concert is free and open to the public.

Harris will perform Beethoven’s Sonata Op. 31, No. 2, Tempest; Ravel’s Miroirs; and Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 6 in A, Op. 82.

Harris has performed as a pianist and chamber musician throughout the U.S., Austria, France, Italy, and Asia. In recent years, Harris toured with the Eastman Wind Ensemble, served as an orchestral pianist with the Tanglewood Festival Orchestra and has performed in many prestigious venues including Carnegie Hall, Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, and the National Concert Hall in Taipei, Taiwan.

Harris has been the musical director for several operas including Britten’s, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Poulenc’s, Dialogues of the Carmelites. During the summers of 2001 and 2002, Harris was the Nat King Cole Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, where he studied coaching, opera, art song, and collaborative piano with numerous musicians including Phyllis Curtin, Dawn Upshaw, Martin Katz, Kenneth Griffiths and Alan Smith.

For more information on the Faculty and Friends Concert Series contact Marilyn Smith at 615.966.5929.