Guest Pianist Peter Mack Will Perform Recital at UW April 5

The University of Wyoming Department of Music will host Irish pianist Peter Mack, who will perform “Despair, Delirium, Delight, Discoveries, Dreams!” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 5, in the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts recital hall. The recital is free and open to the public.

Touted as featuring “some of the saddest and the most joyful piano music of the last 150 years,” Mack’s eclectic recital will include pieces by Edvard Grieg, Frederic Chopin, Lili Boulanger, Gabriel Dupont, Leo Ornstein, Nadia Boulanger, Oswald Russell, Margaret Bonds and Charles Trénet.

Mack is in demand as a performer, clinician, convention artist, adjudicator and teacher. Celebrated for his moving playing -- and his easy rapport with audiences -- he has performed throughout the U.S. and Europe, as well as in Australia, India and the former Soviet Union. He is the winner of the New Orleans, Young Keyboard Artists and Pacific International Piano competitions. His prize in the Sherman-Clay competition included a Steinway grand piano.

Mack is well known for his extensive repertoire, having performed 26 concertos with orchestras. A choral scholar at Trinity College Dublin and a fellow of Trinity College London, he has a doctorate in piano performance from the University of Washington.

Past engagements include performances in two of the most acoustically perfect performance spaces in Europe -- the Salle Cortot of the Ecole Normale in Paris and the Haydnsaal of the Esterhazy Palace in Eisenstadt, Austria.

Mack recently delivered both the advanced piano master class at the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) annual convention and the master class for MTNA winners at the biennial National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy in Illinois. He is the teacher of 24 MTNA national finalists and four MTNA national first-place winners.

An active MTNA member, his term as president of the organization runs through 2025.

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