Pepperdine University Presents 'An Evening with Marvin Hamlisch' 4/11

Pepperdine University Center for the Arts presents a concert by composer, conductor, and pianist Marvin Hamlisch, who has garnered Oscars, Grammys, Emmys, a Tony, Golden Globes, and even a Pulitzer Prize for his compositions over the course of an extraordinary career, at Pepperdine's Smothers Theatre at 8 p.m. on Monday, April 11.

Joining Hamlisch will be tenor J. Mark McVey, who made his Broadway debut as Jean Valjean in Les Miserables after having won the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Actor while on tour with the show.

Tickets, priced at $65 for the public and $10 for full-time Pepperdine students, are available now by calling (310) 506-4522. Tickets are also available through Ticketmaster at (800) 982-2787. More information: http://arts.pepperdine.edu/ or http://www.marvinhamlisch.com/.

Hamlisch's life in music is notable for its great versatility as well as its substance.

As a composer, Hamlisch has won virtually every major award that exists: three Oscars, four Grammys, four Emmys, a Tony, and three Golden Globes.

For Broadway, he wrote the music for They're Playing Our Song as well as his groundbreaking show A Chorus Line, which received the Pulitzer Prize.

He is the composer of more than 40 motion picture scores, including his Oscar-winning score and song for The Way We Were and his adaptation of Scott Joplin's music for The Sting, for which he received a third Oscar. His prolific output of scores for films includes original compositions and/or musical adaptations for Sophie's Choice, Ordinary People, The Swimmer, Three Men and a Baby, Ice Castles, Take the Money and Run, Bananas, Save the Tiger, and his latest effort, The Informant!, starring Matt Damon and directed by Steven Soderbergh.

Hamlisch holds the position of principal pops conductor for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Pasadena Symphony and Pops, Seattle Symphony, and San Diego Symphony.

He was musical director and arranger of Barbra Streisand's 1994 concert tour of the U.S. and England as well as of the television special "Barbra Streisand: The Concert" (for which he received two of his Emmys).

He is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music and Queens College, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Hamlisch believes in the power of music to bring people together. "Music can make a difference. There is a global nature to music, which has the potential to bring all people together. Music is truly an international language, and I hope to contribute by widening communication as much as I can."