News Release

January 9, 2007


The American Piano Duo To Perform at Boise State University

 

The American Piano Duo will give a recital at 4 p.m. Jan. 21 in the Morrison Center Recital Hall on the Boise State University campus. Admission is $5 general, $3 seniors and free to students of all ages and Boise State faculty and staff.

The American Piano Duo, comprised of Boise State music professor Del Parkinson and Jeffrey Shumway, will perform a program including Ravel’s “Bolero,” Copland’s “Hoe-Down” and Dukas’ “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.” It also will include a waltz and Spanish and Russian dances. Shumway and Parkinson will tour the Northwest with this program.

Shumway and Parkinson formed the American Piano Duo in 1984. Shumway is the head of keyboard studies at Brigham Young University and Parkinson is a professor of piano at Boise State. The American Piano Duo has performed throughout the United States, Mexico and Europe. Their first CD, “Celebrating Gershwin!” was release during the centennial year of the composer’s birth. Their CD of the concerto for two pianos by Mendelssohn is the world premiere recording of the original version. They recently recorded the three major works for two pianos by Sergei Rachmaninoff. They can also be heard as two of the four pianists on a compact disc of the American Piano Quartet.

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Contact: Del Parkinson, Department of Music, (208) 426-3300, dparkins@boisestate.edu
Media Contact: Julie Hahn, University Communications, (208) 426-5540, juliehahn@boisestate.edu 

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