UpDate - Vol. 12, No. 27, Page 4
April 15, 1993
Ursula Oppens to perform in campus concert, master class

     Pianist Ursula Oppens, recently called a "national treasure" by the
Boston Globe, will perform at 8 p.m., Saturday, April 24, in the auditorium
of Newark Hall.
     She also will offer a free master class at 3:30 p.m., Friday, April
23, in the Amy E. du Pont Music Building.
     Oppens performs a mix of standard repertoire and contemporary music
and continues to win acclaim for interpretation of both.
     The program for her Newark concert includes Fantasia in g minor, Op.
77 by Beethoven, Two Canons for Ursula by Conlon Nancarrow, Sonata in g
minor, Op. 22 by Schumann, Sontat in F major, Op 54 by Beethoven and Valses
Nobles et Sentimentales La Valse by Ravel.
     Tickets are $15 for the general public, $10 for University faculty,
staff and senior citizens and $5 for students. For more information, call
the University's box office at 831-2204.
     Her 1992-93 seasons includes concerti with the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony and orchestras in South Carolina and
Wisconsin; recitals in Minneapolis, San Francisco and other cities in
California, Pennsylvania, and Oklahoma. She also will perform in the
Netherlands, in Vienna and in music festivals across the country.
     She attended Radcliffe College, where she majored in English
literature and economics. Warned that she should also "learn to type so you
will have a marketable skill" she decided to run to the piano.
     She went on to earn a master of music degree from the Julliard School
and, under the auspices of Young Concert Artists, made her New York debut
at Carnegie Recital Hall in 1969.
     In 1991, she was nominated for a Grammy Award. She captured the
Critics' Choice Award in August 1984 from High Fidelity Magazine for her
Nonesuch recording of music for two pianos played with the late Paul
Jacobs.
     Her two most recent recordings, Beethoven Piano Sonatas and
Schoenberg's Book of the Hanging Gardens, are coupled with her Caberet
Songs with soprano Phyllis Bryn-Julson, on the Music and Arts label.
     The concert is sponsored by the University's Performing Arts Series.