Contact: Maridith Geuder
STARKVILLE, Miss.--A public master class Friday [Nov. 13] by Mississippi State's music department will feature visiting Russian pianist Mikhail Yanovitsky.
The 2-4 p.m. sessions in the Giles Architecture Building auditorium will involve MSU students, local private instructors and faculty members from the university and Itawamba Community College.
Admission is free for any or all of the sessions.
Now a faculty member at Northeastern Illinois University, Yanovitsky was born in Leningrad and studied at the Moscow Conservatory. After winning the U.S. Young Concert Artists International Audition in 1991, he has garnered numerous other honors, including the 1993 Aaron and Irene Diamond Soloist Prize for Young Concert Artists.
He earned two coveted Gina Bachauer Piano Scholarships for graduate studies at the New York's Juilliard School, and his Kennedy Center debut received critical acclaim.
Yanovitsky has performed with major symphony orchestras around the world and conducted master classes in the U.S., Europe, Russia, Israel, and Japan.
For more information, telephone the music department at 662-325-3070.
For more information about Mississippi State University, see http://www.msstate.edu/.