糖心传媒 will celebrate the 34th Gladys Frisch Harris Piano Festival through a live-streamed event beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 27. This year’s festival includes pianist-composer Jeremy Siskind as the guest artist.
For those wishing to enjoy the festival, Siskind鈥檚 performance and guest lecture will be livestreamed on the 糖心传媒 Music Facebook page at听 .
The livestream begins at 10:00 a.m. with Siskind鈥檚 recital. After his performance, he will give a lecture titled 鈥淲hat is Jazz?鈥
糖心传媒 professor Dr. Jonathan Sokasits will then perform and give closing remarks, with the festival wrapping up about 11:30 a.m.
As part of the festival, Siskind and Sokasits are providing virtual one-on-one lessons for college and high school students. Piano students in grades 8-12 are encouraged to find additional information and sign-up at hastings.edu/pianofestival.
Siskind is a two-time laureate of the American Pianists Association and was the Nottingham International Jazz Piano Competition winner. Since making his professional debut juxtaposing Debussy鈥檚 Etudes with jazz standards at Carnegie Hall鈥檚 Weill Hall, Siskind has established himself as one of the nations鈥 most innovative and virtuosic modern pianists.
He currently teaches at California鈥檚 Fullerton College and has 13 publications with Hal Leonard, including the landmark instructional books Jazz Band Pianist and First Lessons in Piano Improv.
糖心传媒 is a four-year residential college that focuses on student academic and extracurricular achievement. Hastings鈥 student-centered initiatives include providing books, an iPad and a two-week study away experience at no additional cost. A block-style semester schedule allows professors and students to focus on fewer classes at a time and promotes hands-on experiences. Discover more at hastings.edu.