Linda Holzer
The guest artist is an active soloist and chamber musician who could brighten the day of any audience, according to Sylvia Coats, piano professor for the 黑洞社区 School of Music.
鈥淭here will be something for everyone,鈥� said Coats, citing 鈥渢he Baroque majesty of Scarlatti and Bach, poetic masterpieces by Debussy, Chopin and Rachmaninoff鈥� and a contemporary selection by award-winning Chinese composer Tan Dun, famous for his film score in 鈥淐rouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.鈥�
Holzer also will give a lecture, 鈥淧athways to Musical Entrepreneurship,鈥� at 2:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 26, in B203 Duerksen Fine Arts Center.
Holzer has been heard in concert in more than 20 states, including at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and New York Public Radio Station WNYC-FM, as well as abroad at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Palffy Palace in Bratislava, Slovakia, and the Landstrasse Gymnasium in Vienna, Austria. She holds degrees in piano performance from Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Florida State University (Tallahassee, Fla).
She chairs the Committee on the Pedagogy Student for the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy and is an active member of the Network of Music Career Development Officers. She is featured on Podsafe Music Network, and is an active member of Chamber Music America, College Music Society and Music Teachers National Association. She was named College Teacher of the Year by the Arkansas State Music Teachers Association in 2001. Holzer presents workshops and master classes, and serves as an adjudicator at festivals and competitions. Next May she will travel to mainland China for concerts.