Derek Parsons, professor of piano at Furman University in South Carolina, and Peter Cooper, dean of the School of Music at Southern Adventist University, will perform Healey Willan’s Piano Concerto in C minor, HWC76a on Monday, Feb. 10, at 4 p.m. They will play Caroline Owen and Prof. Parsons’s arrangement for two pianos.
That evening after the concert,Prof. Parsons will be hosting a piano masterclass at 6:30 p.m. The following evening, Tuesday, Feb. 11, at 7:30 p.m., Prof. Parsons will perform a solo recital featuring the works of Haydn, Ginastera, Liszt and others.
Since his orchestral debut at age 12, Prof.
Parsons has been performing for audiences in a career that has spanned four decades. Critics have hailed him as “a wonderfully sensitive musical artist” (The Brantford Expositor). Active as an orchestral soloist, recitalist and collaborative artist, Prof. Parsons has performed throughout the United States as well as in Canada, Spain, Italy and China, playing repertoires of various styles, genres and periods.
All of these events will take place in Ackerman Auditorium, Mabel Wood Hall (second floor) in
Collegedale on Southern’s campus, and will be free to attend.