Dixie State Music Department to Host Jeffrey Shumway for Special Piano Recital THIS FRIDAY!

 The Dixie State College Music Department will host a special recital featuring Dr. Jeffrey Shumway on Friday, Nov. 6, at 4:00 p.m. in the Eccles Concert Hall. The recital is free and open to all DSC students, faculty and staff, and community to attend. 

Dr. Shumway will perform four numbers, including Beethoven’s “Sonata in G Major, op. 31, no. 1,” “Suite Bergamasque,” by Claude Debussy, and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s “Prelude in D Minor, op. 23, no. 3,” “Prelude in E-flat Major, op. 23, no. 6,” and “Prelude in C-sharp Minor, op. 3, no. 2.” In addition, Shumway will discuss the music he will perform and allow students to ask questions.

Shumway is a member of the music faculty at Brigham Young University, serving as Professor of Piano. He received the Doctor of Music degree with High Honors from Indiana University in 1981, and was the second prize winner of the 1977 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition.

Since joining the piano faculty at BYU in 1985, Shumway has performed extensively solo and chamber music, including performing the complete piano works of Maurice Ravel. In 1990, he completed a series of ten recitals featuring the complete thirty-two sonatas of Beethoven, for which he received high acclaim and was honored with the inaugural Gina Bachauer Medal of Artistic Distinction. Shumway was the recipient of the Utah Music Teachers Association 2007 Legacy Award for lifetime service to the profession, and received the Karl G. Maeser Excellence in Teaching award for 2009-2010 from BYU.