PIANO CONCERTBENEFITING THE RED SKELTON MUSEUM OF AMERICAN COMEDY

7:00 PM

SATURDAYJUNE 28

2014

Red Skelton Performing Arts Center

20 Red Skelton Blvd.Vincennes, IN

Greg McCallum, pianistGreg has performed across North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia in some of the world’s most prestigious concert halls including the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., Preston Bradley Hall in Chicago, New York’s Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London, and at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada. A versatile musician, McCallum plays a wide range of repertoire from Bach to Brubeck, and has been praised by critics for his “deeply felt, sensitive playing” (Die Main Post, Germany) and “consummate technical and artistic skill” (The Spectator, Raleigh, NC). McCallum received music degrees from the University of Maryland at College Park, the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and the Hochschule für Musik in Würzburg, Germany. He has won many honors in competitions, including most recently being selected as a finalist in the 2010 Web Concert Hall International Competition. McCallum frequently appears on radio and television, and records for the MSR Classics label. Currently he is working on an international recording project that includes residencies abroad and documents cultural and musical evolution through the piano and its diverse repertoire. His recent release in this series, Voyage à Paris, explores the development of French piano music around the turn of the twentieth century and includes works by Franck, Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc and Messiaen. Gramophone praised the CD as a “delightful French tour” and hailed McCallum’s “rock-solid technique” and “boldness and vigour” in performing this repertoire. Fanfare compared McCallum’s playing to legendary pianists Thibaudet, Pollini, and Moravec. McCallum’s previous release in this series, Southern Quilt, documented his own American heritage and was praised by Fanfare as “an imaginative recital...McCallum makes strong claims for the music, showing himself to be equally adept in the sweet lushness of the Still and in the mechanistic drive of the Rzewski.” A dedicated teacher, McCallum maintains a private studio of advanced students who have won honors in regional and international piano competitions. In both his performing and teaching, McCallum has been greatly influenced by the Feldenkrais Method® of somatic education. He is a licensed Feldenkrais practitioner and finds much joy in helping others realize their full potential at the keyboard through his unique use of the Feldenkrais Method®. For more information, please visit his website, www.gregmccallum.com.

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OR CALL 812-887-5291

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TICKETS: $20.00 Includes

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ConcertRefreshments &Entertainment

AFTER THE CONCERT

RECEPTION with music by AFTER HOURS

Join us at the fountain for live entertainment provided by this incredibly talented band from Evansville, who performs music from Duke Ellington and George Gershwin, to the Beatles, Stevie Wonder and Nora Jones. Members are Jonathan Hogan: tenor sax, Matt Kincaid: guitar, Michael Gray: upright bass, Pat Moore: drums, and Cary Gray: vocals.