<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div class="yiv2097580000MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-size: 12px;">The Department of Music would like to invite everyone to the Faculty Artist Series Recital featuring Mark Greer on piano. The recital will be <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1362415134_0">Monday, March 11 at 7:30 p.m</span>. 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. </div><div class="yiv2097580000MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif; padding: 0px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div class="yiv2097580000MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-weight: bold;">Malone University</span></div><div class="yiv2097580000MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-weight: bold;">Department of Music presents</span></div><div class="yiv2097580000MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-weight: bold;">Faculty Artist Series:</span></div><div
class="yiv2097580000MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div class="yiv2097580000MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Mark Greer, piano</span></div><div class="yiv2097580000MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div class="yiv2097580000MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Monday, March 11,
2013</span></b></div><div class="yiv2097580000MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">7:30 p.m.</span></b></div><div class="yiv2097580000MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-weight: bold;">Sanctuary</span></div><div class="yiv2097580000MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-weight: bold;">Johnson Center for Worship and the Fine Arts</span></div><div class="yiv2097580000MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size:
12px; text-align: center; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-weight: bold;"><br></span></div><div class="yiv2097580000MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 12px; text-align: center; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-weight: bold;"><br></span></div><div class="yiv2097580000MsoNormal" align="center" style="padding: 0px; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 12px; text-align: center; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-weight: bold;"></span></div><div class="yiv2097580000MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: 'Edwardian Script
ITC';">Biography</span></div><div class="yiv2097580000msonormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="yiv2097580000apple002dstyle002dspanchar"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Mark Greer </span></b></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">completed his B.M., magna cum laude, in piano performance at <span class="yiv2097580000yshortcuts">Bowling Green State University</span> 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 </span><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">Marjorie Conrad Art Song Competitions<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">, 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</span> was the only American pianist selected to perform on the Dorothy MacKenzie Price Steinway Dedication Concert. <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">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, Lambis Vassiliadis, 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. </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"></span></span></span></div><div class="yiv2097580000msonormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; padding: 0px; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-weight: bold; text-align: justify; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div class="yiv2097580000MsoNormal" style="padding: 0px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">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 <i>Trois
Spectacles</i>. 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 <i>Aspect of a Mood</i> was premiered by the Akron Youth Symphony under Eric Benjamin, an orchestra in which he served as principal bassist.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> 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.</span></span></div><div class="yiv2097580000MsoNormal" align="center" style="padding: 0px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div></div></body></html>