Eminent Artist-in-Residence Eduardo Monteiro to Perform at UW Feb. 1

Brazilian pianist Eduardo Monteiro, the University of Wyoming Department of Music’s Eminent Artist-in-Residence, will be in concert Friday, Feb. 15.

Monteiro will perform at 7:30 p.m. in the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts recital hall. His performance is free and open to the public.

Monteiro has performed in major venues across the world, such as London’s Wigmore Hall, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Cologne Philharmonic Hall, the Munich Gasteig, Milan’s Sala Verdi, the Liceu in Barcelona, Madrid’s National Auditorium of Music, Dublin’s National Concert Hall, the University of Houston’s Opera Center and Boston’s Jordan Hall.

He has performed as a soloist with orchestras in his home country of Brazil, along with five other countries, and has worked with 15 renowned conductors.

His UW program will feature “Piano Sonata in E major, Op. 109,” by Ludwig van Beethoven; “Three Preludes” by Claude Debussy; “Death of Isolde” by Franz Liszt, after Richard Wagner's “Tristan und Isolde;” Sonata No. 1 by Francisco Mignone; and “Impressões Seresteiras” and “Hommage à Chopin,” both by Heitor Villa-Lobos.

For more information, call Kathy Kirkaldie, UW Fine Arts coordinator, at (307) 766-2160 or email kirsik@uwyo.edu.