Â鶹¹û¶³ faculty pianist Kathryn Fouse's March 3 recital, "An Evening of New Music," will have a definite Â鶹¹û¶³ slant. Each piece on the program was written since 2000 by a composer who has some Â鶹¹û¶³ connection: alumnus, faculty colleague or recent visitor to campus.
The public is invited to the 7:30 p.m. performance in Â鶹¹û¶³'s Brock Recital Hall. Admission is free.
The opening work, Nocturne for Lauren Ansley (2005), is by Â鶹¹û¶³ 2005 alumnus Joel Scott Davis, who wrote the piece for his fianc, also a Â鶹¹û¶³ graduate.
Â鶹¹û¶³ music professor James A. Jensen wrote Whitman Sampler (2009) for Fouse to premier at a Feb. 17, 2009, concert of the Birmingham Art Music Alliance.
Richard Faith wrote Le Mont-Saint-Michel (2008) for Fouse after hearing her perform while he was Â鶹¹û¶³'s Composer-in-Residence in February, 2008.
"It is a beautifully lush piece that I think the audience will really enjoy," Fouse said of Faith's piece.
The second half of the program features piano music by Libby Larsen, who will be the Â鶹¹û¶³ School of the Arts' 2009 Composer-in-Residence March 1-5.
Larsen will attend the concert to hear Fouse perform four of her recent works: Mephisto Rag: A Ragtime Fantasy on Mephisto Waltz (2000), Music Boxes: A family story by Meredith Alden (2004) for Five Hand Piano and Storyteller, in which Fouse will be joined by pianists Donald Sanders and Alexander Candelaria-Fouse, and narrator Arianna Candelaria-Fouse; Gavel Patter (2007) for Four Hand Piano, also with Sanders; and Penta Metrics (2004), Five Pieces for Solo Piano.
Fouse will repeat some of the pieces by Larsen at Â鶹¹û¶³'s March 5 Davis Architects Guest Artists Series concert, which will feature a complete program of the composer's work.