Pianist Katahn to play recital series Feb. 24

Release Date: 2/18/2003. Expired: 2/24/2003

The Renaissance Center’s Recitals in the Rotunda series continues Monday, Feb. 24, with a performance by pianist Enid Katahn.

The free recital begins at 7 p.m. in the rotunda of the center at 855 Highway 46 South in Dickson and will feature classical pieces by composers such as Haydn, Liszt, Ravel, Chopin and more.

A professor of piano, emerita, at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, Katahn is making her third appearance at The Renaissance Center. Her concert tours have taken her throughout the United States and Europe and she continues to be in demand for recitals, lectures and master classes.

Katahn records on the Gasparo label and her CDs, which include the piano works of Carl Nielsen, Pierre Max Dubois, Cecile Chaminade, Gabriel Pierre and Albert Roussel, have received critical acclaim. Reviewers have applauded her “marvelous job, both technically and musically.” About her Chaminade CD, one critic wrote, “What a sparkling disc this is.”

An interest in historical tunings, sparked by the research of piano technician Edward Foote, led to a CD titled “Beethoven in the Temperaments.” It features four Beethoven sonatas in two different tunings commonly used in Beethoven’s time.

“Dramatic works like the ‘Moonlight’ and ‘Waldstein’ sonatas become even more so when key character is restored through these older temperaments,” Katahn said.

A subsequent CD, “Six Degrees of Tonality,” demonstrates six different tunings. American Record Guide called it, “a valuable addition to the library of all pianophiles.”

The Chaminade, Roussel and Beethoven CDs all have been nominated for Nashville Music Awards as Best Classical CD and Katahn has been nominated twice for Best Keyboardist.

She has recorded for the BBC and appears frequently on radio and public television. She has been the recipient of Vanderbilt’s Alumni Education Award and has twice been named Teacher of the Year by the Nashville Area Music Teachers Association.

As a music educator, Katahn offers this advice to students:

“1. Practice every day. 2. Practice slowly. 3. Practice the hardest sections in isolation and most often. And I would add a fourth: Think about what you are trying to communicate through a particular piece of music and then make sure that all elements of your performance - dynamics, tempo, touch, phrasing - all contribute to this communication. And then, spend the rest of your natural life trying to get your whole act together.”

The Recitals in the Rotunda series features free performances by area professionals, educators and accomplished students from area universities. Concerts are usually held every other Monday in the rotunda of The Renaissance Center and are videotaped for broadcast on the Dickson local access cable channel.

The series continues March 10 with a performance of Celtic and Welsh music by award-winning triple-harp player Kelly Stewart of Atlanta.

For more information on the Recitals in the Rotunda series, call Senior Director of Music Elaine Sherrill at (615)740-5545.

Visit the Events - Concerts and Recitals page for more about musical performances.

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