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Western's Music Department Presents Dr. Leljak

Contact: Kent Heier
Phone: 816-271-4124
Title: Assistant PR/Marketing Director
Email: kheier@missouriwestern.edu

WESTERNS MUSIC DEPARTMENT PRESENTS DR. DORIAN LELJAK

St. Joseph, Mo. -Oct. 29, 2010-Missouri Western State Universitys music department presents piano soloist, Dr. Dorian Leljak, to perform at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 1 in Kemper Recital Hall, inside Leah Spratt Hall.

Leljak is a professor of piano at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade (Serbia) and also teaches at the Royal College of Music in London. He is an Artistic Director of the International Isidor Bajic Piano Competition, President of the World Piano Conference, President of the European Piano Teachers Association (EPTA) Voyvodina, Executive Director of the Panopticum Musicum/Musica Ricercata/Omnibus Musicus International Music Schools as well as a Southeast Europe Representative for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. He has won several international piano competitions, been awarded numerous prizes and appeared in recitals and orchestras around the world. He is also a member of the jury at many international piano competitions and has given master classes and lectures around the world.

Tickets will be sold at the door. General admission is $7. Seniors and Western students and employees with their I.D are $5. Kids 12 and under and students who are enrolled in a music course through Western are free. This event is open to the public.

For more information please contact Matt Edwards, associate professor and director of keyboard studies, at 816-271-4420 or tedwards7@missouriwestern.edu.

Missouri Western State University is a comprehensive regional university providing a blend of traditional liberal arts and professional degree programs. The university offers student-centered, high quality instruction that focuses on experience-based learning, community service, and state-of-the-art technology. Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit www.missouriwestern.edu.

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