[NEohioPAL] Mark Greer, Piano FACULTY RECITAL: MARCH 11, 2013 MALONE UNIVERSITY

[Mark Greer]

The Department of Music would like to invite everyone to the Faculty Artist Series Recital featuring Mark Greer on piano.  The recital will be Monday, March 11 at 7:30 p.m. in the Sanctuary of the Johnson Center for Worship and the Fine Arts located at 2600 Cleveland Avenue, NW, Canton, OH 44709 . Come and enjoy a night of beautiful music by Bach, Barber, Beethoven, Haydn, and Scriabin.  The recital is free and open to the public. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the music department office at 330-471-8231. 
 
Malone University
Department of Music presents
Faculty Artist Series:
 
Mark Greer, piano
 
Monday, March 11, 2013
7:30 p.m.
Sanctuary
Johnson Center for Worship and the Fine Arts


Biography
Mark Greer completed his B.M., magna cum laude, in piano performance at Bowling Green State University and his M.M. in piano performance from Kent State University. Awards and honors include 1st prize in the State Finals of the OMTA Collegiate Buckeye Competition, Prizewinner of the Tuesday Musical Competition, Honors in the OMTA Graves Young Artist Competition, Finalist in the Bowling Green State University Piano Concerto and the Marjorie Conrad Art Song Competitions, and was the 2005 recipient of the College’s Steve Vun Cannon Memorial Award. Performance venues include Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Blossom Music Center, E.J. Thomas Hall, Friends of Music Concert Series, Bundy Center for the Arts (VT), Akron Public Library, First Night Akron, and the Miller South School for the Visual and Performing Arts.  In 2004, Greer was the only American pianist selected to perform on the Dorothy MacKenzie Price Steinway Dedication Concert. He has
 been featured live on Vermont Public Radio, and made his orchestral debut with the Heiligenstadt Chamber Orchestra under Theodore Albrecht. He has performed in masterclasses with Nelita True, Spencer Myer, Enrico Elisi, LambisVassiliadis, and Virginia Marks. Major teachers include Paul Alberts, Laura Melton, Jerry Wong, Jane Solose, Mary Ann Griebling, and conducting with Frank Wiley and Christopher James Lees. 

In addition to piano, Greer is an accomplished composer, having been a two-time national prizewinner in the NFMC Composers Contest, where he received the Olga Klein Nelson Chamber Music Award for his piece Trois Spectacles. Other awards include a prizewinner in the 2001 OMTA Collegiate Composers Contest, Honors in the Cleveland Chamber Symphony’s High School Composers Contest, a two-time winner of the Ralph Gilman Composers Award, and a four-time winner of Akron’s Scholastic Composers Contest. His piece entitled Aspect of a Mood was premiered by the Akron Youth Symphony under Eric Benjamin, an orchestra in which he served as principal bassist. During his undergraduate studies at BGSU, Greer taught private and group piano classes in the Creative Arts Program for area children and adults, and was twice the President of the Collegiate MTNA Chapter, organizing student recitals and seminars on memorization, performance and pedagogical techniques, and
 the Alexander Technique. He maintains an active private studio in the greater Akron area. Greer joined Malone University as a member of the piano faculty in the Spring of 2012.
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