3/26/2003

Contact: K.E. Schwab  -- 724-738-2199;  e-mail: karl.schwab@sru.edu

SRU’S DR. NANETTE KAPLAN SOLOMON TO OFFER BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE TO COMPOSERS LOPATNIKOFF AND DIEMER IN APRIL 13 CONCERT

            SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Dr. Nanette Kaplan Solomon, professor of music at Slippery Rock University, will salute the 100th ^{birthday of composer Nikolai Lopatnikoff's and the 75h birthday of of Emma Lou Diemer, which she presents a free, public piano recital at 4 p.m. April 13 in Swope Music Hall.}

           The SRU professor who teaches piano, music history and form and analysis, is a resident of New Castle. She joined the SRU faculty in 1977 and performs extensively both in the U.S. and abroad.

           She earned her bachelor of arts from Yale University and holds a master of music from Yale School of Music. Her doctorate was earned at Boston University and she has performed at the Lincoln Center Library in New York, the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, and Wigmore Hall in London. In 1996, Solomon was selected as a finalist in the Pittsburgh Symphony “Search for a Star” sponsored by Marvin Hamlisch and performed in Pittsburgh’s Heinz Hall.

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