ONEONTA, N.Y. --
Jerome Rose, one of the world's most
respected and renowned classical pianists, professors of piano, organizers
of music festivals, and recording artists, will perform in the Hunt College
Union Ballroom at the SUNY College at Oneonta at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April
19. The performance is the 2007 installment of the Mills Distinguished
Lecture Series at the College. Admission to the event is complimentary, and
members of the community are invited to attend.
Jerome Rose will present a virtuoso performance of Beethoven's
"Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 31, No. 3," Schumann's "Fantasie in C
major, Op. 17," and Chopin's "Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35
‘Funeral March.'" Rose, who performed at SUNY-Oneonta in 2000, has been
heard in major concert halls across five continents. He was presented
with an honorary SUNY doctorate by the College in 2001.
A gold medalist in the prestigious international Busoni piano
competition, Jerome Rose began his international performing career in
his early twenties. He has appeared with a range of international
orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, and
Vienna
Symphony. He has been a soloist with such major American orchestras as
the Chicago Symphony and San Francisco Symphony.
A graduate of Mannes College and the Juilliard School of Music and a
former Fulbright Scholar, Jerome Rose is on the faculty of Mannes
College The New School for Music. He also served for nearly 35 years as
artist-in-residence at Bowling Green State University. Rose is the
founder and director of the International Keyboard Institute and
Festival, which is held every summer in New York City.
The Mills Lecture at the SUNY College at Oneonta--established by the
College at Oneonta Foundation to honor the memory of Education Professor
Albert Mills and his wife, Helena M. Mills--brings to campus a
distinguished person of international reputation with expertise in broad
areas of human concern. Since its inauguration in 1992, the series has
featured Harvard University zoologist Stephen Jay Gould, oceanographer
and ecologist Jean-Michel Cousteau, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian
Doris Kearns Goodwin, science historian James Burke, author Barry Lopez,
and international authority on Islamic culture John Esposito.
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