News & Events Amherst College Music Faculty to Perform Concert of Contemporary Works for Clarinet and Piano

August 20, 2008
Contact: Sara Leonard
Concert and Production Manager
413/542-2195

AMHERST, Mass. – Amherst College music professors David Schneider, clarinet, and Karen Rosenak, piano, will present a concert of contemporary works on Saturday, Sept. 6, at 8 p.m. in Buckley Recital Hall in the Arms Music Center at Amherst College.

The program will include solo clarinet and piano works by Messiaen, Rzewski’s Winsboro Cottonmill Blues for piano and a selection from Adams’ Gnarly Buttons. It will also feature Contours for clarinet and piano by Amherst music professor and composer Eric Sawyer.

This concert is open to the public at no charge.