Pianist Gerald Lee to Perform Feb. 3
The Fairmont State University Music Department, under the tutelage of Dr. Mary Lynne
Bennett, will present a guest pianist at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 3, in the Wallman
Hall Theatre.
The concert is free and open to the public.
Guest pianist will be Dr. Gerald Lee, Assistant Professor of Piano at West Liberty
State College. He has earned three piano performance degrees: Bachelor of Music, Master
of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts from Illinois Wesleyan University, Indiana University
and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, respectively. He has studied with artist-teachers
Lawrence Campbell, Andrew Cooperstock, Reiko Neriki, Logan Skelton, Arthur Greene
and the late Distinguished Professor György Sebök.
Lee has been a prizewinner in several competitions, including second place in the
National Finals of the Music Teachers' National Association Collegiate Artists' Piano
Competition and a third place finish in the 2003 International Beethoven Piano Sonata
Competition held in Memphis, Tenn. He also won concerto competitions at Illinois Wesleyan
University, the University of Michigan and has twice won the Brevard Summer Music
Festival Concerto Competition. Lee frequently serves as an adjudicator for the West
Virginia Music Teachers' Association and the Music Teachers' National Association.
His Fairmont State program will include Beethoven's Sonata in A-Flat Major, Opus 110;
Chopin's Barcarolle in F-Sharp Major, Opus 60; Bartok's Sonata Sz 80 (1926); and Schumann's
Fantasy in C Major, Opus 17.
