Winter Center Holds Pianist Conversations Tonight

Millersville University faculty members Drs. Anita Renfroe and Xun Pan will perform together in a concert of music written for two pianos tonight, Oct. 4, 7:30 p.m., at the Ware Center of Millersville University in Lancaster. The Ware Center is located at 42 N. Prince Street, Lancaster. The concert, "Fantastic Conversations," will include music by Mozart (the Sonata in D, K. 448), Schubert (Fantasie in F Mino), and Bach, and 20th-century composers Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc and William Elden Bolcom.

Anita Boyle Renfroe, professor of music and director of keyboard studies at Millersville University, earned her Doctor of Musical Arts from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary School of Music in Louisville, Ky. She has played in piano and harpsichord performances throughout the United States and Europe, and is a featured artist, clinician and adjudicator for state and national conventions, including the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) and the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy. She has been awarded permanent Professional and Mater Teacher certificates from the Music Teachers National Association. Grants and awards during her tenure at Millersville University include a Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education grant for research on Mendelssohn at Oxford University's Bodleian Library and a sabbatical to research the French composer, Eugene Nollet. Her current research is focused on the study and performance of music composed for the fortepiano.

Chinese-American pianist Xun Pan is staff accompanist at Millersville University and a visiting professor at China Conservatory of Music, China Northwest University for Nationalities, Fuzhou University, Yantai University, Shandong University, Qinghai Normal University, and Wenzhou University. Pan received his early musical training from his grandmother and pianists-parents, and continued his studies at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, Syracuse University in New York. He earned his Doctor of Musical Arts from Rutgers University in New Jersey. He has won many international piano competitions and awards, has performed in solo recitals worldwide, and has served as a judge in several competitions, including the Frinna Awerbuch International Piano Competition in New York and the U.S. Music Open Competition in Oakland, California. Pan is the pianist of the Newstead Trio and Trio Clavino, whose work has been broadcast live on radio and television and recorded.

Tickets are $15. Tickets for the concert can be purchased online at ArtsMU.com, or by calling the Ticket Office at Millersville University, 717-871-7600, or the Ware Center, 717-871-7018. Tickets can also be purchased at the Ticket Office, located in the Student Memorial Center on the MU campus, or at the front desk of the Ware Center, 42 N. Prince Street, Lancaster.

For more information, contact the Music Office at 717-871-4700 or by email, at music.assistant@millersville.edu.

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