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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">You are cordially invited to the piano recital presented by guest artist Ilonka Rus-Edery on
<b>April 11th at 7:30 pm</b> in the Concert Hall at Texas A&M University-Commerce. The program includes four-hand works by Rossini, Schubert, Rachmaninoff, Brahms, and Khachaturian. </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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
<i>Citta di Marsala, </i>in Italy.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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
20<sup>th</sup> and 21<sup>st</sup> Century music duos and trios.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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
<i>Zilele Tg. Muresene</i> 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
<i>Bellas Artes</i> Fundacion Excellence in Service and Teaching Award, at the <i>
XI Encuentro International de Musica Bellas Artes Festival </i>(International Festival of the
<i>Bellas Artes </i>University, eleventh edition), Medellin, Colombia.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Dr. Rus-Edery is presently Associate Professor of Piano and Director of Keyboard Studies at Sam Houston State University
in Huntsville, Texas.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color:black">Dr. Luis Sanchez</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:black"> | <b>Associate Professor, Piano</b></span></span><b><span style="color:black"><br>
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:black">Department of Music | Texas A&M University-Commerce</span></span><span style="color:black"><br>
</span><span class="apple-style-span"><u><span style="color:blue"><a href="mailto:Luis.Sanchez@tamuc.edu">Luis.Sanchez@tamuc.edu</a></span></u></span><u><span style="color:blue"><br>
</span></u><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:black">PO Box 3011 | Commerce, TX 75429</span></span><span style="color:black"><br>
<span class="apple-style-span">Tel. 903.886.5287 | Fax 903.468.6010| </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://www.tamuc.edu/">www.tamuc.edu</a></span></span><span style="color:blue"><br>
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