News & Events Pianist Alissa Leiser to Perform Recital of Solo and Chamber Works at Amherst College on Mar. 7

February 9, 2010
Contact: Sara R. Leonard
Concert and Production Manager
413/542-2195

AMHERST, Mass. – The Amherst College Department of Music presents a recital of solo and chamber music works by Alissa Leiser, piano instructor at Amherst since 1998, on Sunday, March 7, at 3 p.m. in Buckley Recital Hall in the Arms Music Center on campus. This concert is free and open to the public; seating is by general admission.

The concert celebrates the 200^th birthdays of composers Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann, and the 200^th anniversary of the death of Franz Josef Haydn. Leiser’s program includes Hadyn’s Sonata No. 60 in C Major, Schumann’s Humoreske, Op. 20, and Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 66 featuring performances by Joel Pitchon and Volcy Pelletier from Smith College.

Leiser is a graduate of the Juilliard School and has performed at the Ravinia Festival, Alice Tully Hall, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago. She has appeared with the New Jersey Symphony, the New Orchestra of Boston and Orchestra New England. Critics have praised Leiser’s playing, writing that she has “technical command to spare,” “crystalline articulation” and “maturity of communication.” She has studied with William Masselos, Carl Schachter and Leon Fleisher.

For a complete listing of upcoming events, visit us on the web: https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/music/events.

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