[NEohioPAL] RECITAL: Pianist Laura Melton at Malone University, Mon. 1/14/13 @ 7:30 pm

[Mark Greer]

The Malone University Faculty Artist Series presents Laura Melton in recital Monday, January 14, at 7:30 p.m. in the Stewart Room of the Randall Campus Center, located on the campus at 2600 Cleveland Avenue N.W. in Canton. The program is free and open to the public, and will feature Robert Schumann's Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6, and Claude Debussy's Douze Etudes.
Laura Melton, professor of piano and coordinator of keyboard studies at Bowling Green State University, has performed in Asia, Europe, South America and throughout the United States. She has been a prize winner in several major international competitions including the Mendelssohn Competition in Berlin, the New York Recital Division of the Joanna Hodges Competition, and the National Symphony Orchestra's Young Artist Competition. Her orchestral appearances include the Freiburg Musikhochschulorchester in Germany, the San Francisco Chamber Players, the International Chamber Orchestra in California, and the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. She has been featured on Südwestfunk Radio (Germany), Kol Israel, Radio Nacional de España and National Public Radio's Performance Today in celebration of the birthday of composers, John Corigliano and Samuel Adler. Melton received rave reviews for her CD of solo piano and chamber
 works of Samuel Adler, released on Naxos in December 2008. A second CD for Naxos included the solo piano works of Sebastian Currier and was released in April 2011. Most recently, she recorded the violin and piano works of Currier for Albany Records with University of Michigan faculty violinist, Yehonatan Berick (release, September 2012).
Melton is an avid chamber musician and has appeared in several U.S. summer festivals including Ravinia, Aspen, and Sarasota, as well as European festivals in Holland, Switzerland, Germany and Greece. She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland, where she was a student of Nelita True; a master's degree from the University of Southern California, under John Perry; and a doctorate from Rice University, where she was a graduate fellow and teaching assistant to John Perry. As a student of Robert Levin, she spent three years in Germany as a Fulbright Scholar, earning the Solistendiplom while studying at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg. Her students have won numerous competitions and awards, and have been accepted into such prestigious programs as the Curtis Institute, Juilliard, Eastman, Oberlin, Peabody and the New England Conservatory. A graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy and student of Michael Coonrod, Melton is
 currently a summer faculty member at the Interlochen Arts Camp. Prior to her BGSU appointment in 1999, Melton was on the faculty of the Idyllwild Arts Academy in California.
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