[MusicEvents] GUEST PIANIST: ILONKA RUS-EDERY- APRIL 11 AT 7:30 PM - CONCERT HALL

[Nancy Melton]

You are cordially invited to the piano recital presented by guest artist Ilonka Rus-Edery on April 11th at 7:30 pm in the Concert Hall at Texas A&M University-Commerce.  The program includes four-hand works by Rossini, Schubert, Rachmaninoff, Brahms, and Khachaturian.
Free Admission

Transylvanian born pianist, Dr. ILonka Rus-Edery distinguishes herself as an artist of unusual versatility.  She began her piano studies with her mother at the age of five, in Romania. By the age of ten she gave her first public performance and won her first prize at the International Piano Competition Citta di Marsala, in Italy.
After studies at the Music Academy in Bucharest Romania, the Texas Christian University and Oberlin Conservatory Dr. Rus-Edery entered graduate school at the University of Houston where she was awarded a fullbright scholarship and received her Doctoral of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance with a minor in Organ.
In the summer of 2008, Dr. Rus-Edery along with Rodica Oancea Gonzalez and Mihaela Oancea Frusina, both violonists and members of the Houston Symphony gave her Carnegie Hall recital debut in New York. In the fall of 2011, she recorded Colombian Piano Solo and Chamber Music by Juan Domingo Cordoba in Medellin, Colombia. The following year, Dr. Rus-Edery recorded Music of 20th and 21st Century music duos and trios.
She appeared as a recitalist and concert artist with numerous orchestras and chamber music ensembles throughout Romania, Italy, Spain, Germany, Holland, Mexico, Colombia and the United States.

As a teacher and clinician Dr. Rus-Edery continues to teach piano solo and chamber music master classes in Romania, Mexico, Colombia and United States. Dr. Rus-Edery has presented, and adjudicated at numerous conferences such as Texas Music Teachers Association and Music Teachers National Association. In 2014 Dr. Rus-Edery, was a finalist for Excellence in Service Award at Sam Houston State University. Over the of summer of 2016, she traveled to Tg. Mures, Romania, where she taught Master Classes and performed at the Zilele Tg. Muresene Festival. Dr. Rus-Edery continues to recruit students from around the world for the undergraduate and graduate programs offered at Sam Houston State University. In the Spring of 2016 Dr. Rus-Edery was selected as finalist for the third time, for the Collegiate Teacher of the Year Award at TMTA Conference in Dallas, TX. In the Fall of 2016, she received the Bellas Artes Fundacion Excellence in Service and Teaching Award, at the XI Encuentro International de Musica Bellas Artes Festival (International Festival of the Bellas Artes University, eleventh edition), Medellin, Colombia.
 Dr. Rus-Edery is presently Associate Professor of Piano and Director of Keyboard Studies at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas.
Dr. Luis Sanchez | Associate Professor, Piano
Department of Music | Texas A&M University-Commerce
Luis.Sanchez at tamuc.edu<mailto:Luis.Sanchez at tamuc.edu>
PO Box 3011 | Commerce, TX 75429
Tel. 903.886.5287 | Fax 903.468.6010| www.tamuc.edu<http://www.tamuc.edu/>

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