Giuseppe Lupis, who joined the faculty at Grand Valley State
University as assistant professor of piano in the fall, will be
featured at the next Artist-Faculty Series. His performance of 15
waltzes by Chopin will be on Monday, November 2, from 8-10 p.m., in
the Louis Armstrong Theatre, Performing Arts Center, Allendale Campus.
Lupis' interests range from Baroque to contemporary styles, and
from jazz to his own arrangements of popular music. He has given
performances at the Temple Square Concert Series in Salt Lake City,
for the American Liszt Society Festival, the Peabody Award Banquet at
the Governor's Mansion in Atlanta, and the ACDA convention in
Charleston, West Virginia, among other venues.
As a soloist he has appeared with the Lviv, Latvian, and Bari
Symphonies, the UGA Symphony and the Ascoli Chamber Orchestra. His
compact disc of Gershwin solo works (Phoenix label, 2000) was declared
"exceptional" by musicologist Alberto Cantu in Il
Giornale (Milan, Italy).
A former pupil of renowned concert pianist Aldo Ciccolini, Lupis
holds a Doctorate in Musical Arts in piano performance from the
University of Georgia, under the tutelage of Richard Zimdars. He is a
recipient of the 2005 Franz Liszt Award.
For his research on Keith Emerson's music, currently referenced
in Wikipedia and other Web sites, Lupis received a 2007 Excellence in
Research Award from the University of Georgia.
The public is welcome to this debut recital with free admission.
For more information call the Department of Music at (616) 331-3484.
Artist-Faculty Series features Giuseppe Lupis, piano
Oct 26, 2009
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