1:06 p.m., March 18, 2010----The University of Delaware Department of Music will present a faculty duo piano recital featuring Julie Nishimura and Holly Roadfeldt-O'Riordan at 8 p.m., Monday, April 12, in Gore Recital Hall of the Roselle Center for the Arts.

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Tickets are $12 for adults, $8 for seniors and alumni, and $3 for students, and will be available only at the door.

The program will include the energetic and enchanting duo piano favorites Lutoslawski's Paganini Variations, Ravel's La Valse, and Gershwin's An American in Paris.

Nishimura celebrates 21 years as faculty accompanist for the Department of Music having performed with more than 350 collaborative recitals and over 40 opera and scene study performances with the Opera Workshop and Opera Theatre.

A much sought-after collaborative artist, she has performed on the chamber music series of Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Delaware Symphony, and has been a guest artist at over 30 college campuses.

Nishimura is a perennial favorite at the Delaware Chamber Music Festival and the California Summer Music and Strings International Music Festival, where she has given recitals with Hai-Ye Ni, Carrie Dennis, Harold Robinson, Choong-Jin Chang, Rachel Ku and John Koen.

As co-artistic directors of the Wilmington-based Distant Voices Touring Theatre, she and her husband, Danny Peak, are currently touring two documentary theatrical pieces with piano -- Distant Voices, based on her father's World War II Japanese American Internment Camp diary, and September Echoes, chronicling the events of and following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Roadfeldt-O'Riordan, who teaches at UD and Gettysburg College, holds degrees in piano performance from the Eastman School of Music, Indiana University, and the University of Colorado in Boulder.

She made her orchestral debut with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra at the age of 13 and she continues to be an active solo pianist and chamber musician performing standard and eclectic recital programs.

Recent honors include participation in the World International Competition held in Santa Fe, N.M., during the fall of 2007 as one of 12 selected pianists. A dedicated performer of contemporary music, Roadfeldt-O'Riordan has premiered over 70 solo and chamber works.

In 1996, she was awarded the prize for the "Best Performance of a 20th Century American Composition" in the Frinna Awerbuch International Piano Competition, which resulted in a performance in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Additional contemporary music honors include being a semi-finalist in the Concert Artists Guild International Competition in 1998 and 2001 as a contemporary music specialist.