Sarasota News Leader
November 2, 2012 ECKES TO PERFORM FREE CONCERT ON NOV. 14
The Sarasota Concert Association will present Sylvia Reynolds Eckes, a professor emeritus of piano at Ohio University, in a Munchtime Musicales performance on Nov. 14 at noon in David Cohen Hall inside the Beatrice Fried- man Symphony Center, 709 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota.
Eckes holds degrees from Peabody Con- servatory, the Juilliard School and the University of Kansas, according to a news release. "Following decisive critical acclaim" from her debut concerts in Oslo, Norway, and Lincoln Center in New York City, the release adds, she be- gan performing in concerts as a soloist and chamber musi- cian, as well as with orches- tras in China , Europe, Scandi- navia and throughout the United States.
In 2011, Eckes was award- ed the Royal Norwe- gian Order of Merit, Knight, First Class, for her extensive work on the music of Ed- vard Grieg, the news re- lease notes.
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Sylvia Eckes will perform during the Nov. 14 Munchtime Musicale in Sarasota. Contributed photo
Joseph Haydn's Sonata in B Minor, Hob. 47, selected works from Grieg's Lyric Pieces and Holberg Suite, Frederic Chopin's Ballade No. 3 in A-flat Major and Sergei Rachmaninoff's Prelude in E-flat Major, Op. 23, No. 6 and the Etude-Tableau in E-flat Major, Op. 33, No. 7.
Munchtime Musicales is a series of free concerts featuring performances by high-caliber, area-based art- ists. The series is designed to offer a wide variety of musi- cal genres, including classi- cal, folk and jazz, featuring both vocal and instrumen- tal performers.
For more information, call 351-7467 or visit www. sarasotaconcertassocia- tion.org.
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