Juilliard professor offers recital Sunday

Friday, March 28, 2014

Juilliard School of Music professor to offer piano recital

Matti Raekallio, professor of piano at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, will play a solo piano recital on Sunday, March 30, at 2:30 p.m. in OSU’s Seretean Center for the Performing Arts Concert Hall in Stillwater. He will perform works by Beethoven, Wagner-Liszt, and Finnish composers Jan Sibelius and Einojuhani Rautavaara.

Raekallio will also present a master class with OSU student performers in the Seretean Center Choir Room the evening before the concert, Saturday, March 29, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Seretean Center Choir Room.

A native of Finland, Raekallio made his American debut in 1981 at the Carnegie (Weill) Recital Hall. Since then, he has made regular tours of the U.S., including solo recitals and performances with numerous American symphony orchestras. He has recorded 20 CDs of varied solo repertoire including an acclaimed set of the complete Prokofieff sonatas on the Ondine label. Before he started work at Juilliard in 2007, he was a full professor at the University for Music and Theater (Hochschule für Musik und Theater) in Hanover, Germany, and at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland.       

Raekallio’s visit was made possible through the generosity of a grant from the OSU College of Arts and Sciences Arts and Humanities Lecture Series. Both the recital and the master class are free and open to the public. 

For more information, please call (405) 744-6133.