WALTER COS AND PIANO FACULTY ARTIST CONCERT SERIES KATZIN CONCERT HALL SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 2007 • 2:30 PM MU S IC --i-i-erberger College of Fine Arts ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY Performance Events Staff Manager Paul W. Estes Senior Event Mangers Laura Boone, Yevgeniy Chainikov, Brady Cullum Eric Damashek, Anthony Garcia, Ingrid Israel Xian Meng, Kevan Nymeyer, Pedro Perez, Chase Wiles Apprentice Event Managers Edwin Brown Events Information Call 480-965-TUNE (480-965-8863) 02006 ASU Herberger College of Fine Arts 0706 • • Program Walter Cosand, pianist and Professor of Music at Arizona State University, studied at Eastman School of Music with Cecile Genhart and Barry Snyder. He also studied with Joerg Demus in Europe on a grant from the DAAD. He has won several significant awards including the Eastman Concerto Competition, the grand prize from the International Piano Recording Competition and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has been favorably reviewed in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Arizona Republic, and several music periodicals. An experienced recitalist and chamber music performer, he has performed thirty different concertos. He has commissioned new music from William Albright, William Bolcom, David Diamond and Rodney Rogers. In addition to playing throughout the United States he has performed in Australia, Korea, China, Canada, Russia and Europe. His performances have been broadcast by National Public Radio, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Baycrischer Rundfunk, Korean Cable Television, AMD-TV Beijing, and Ural Radio Sverdlovsk. In 2004 he played in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York City. He performed and taught at Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China in May 2006. In summer he is on the faculty of MasterWorks Festival, Winona Lake, Indiana. He can be heard on ACA Digital, Advance, ARF, Canyon, Centaur, DPS, JIGU, Koch and Summit recordings. Some of his former students now teach and perform as successful concert artists all around the world. He is married to violist Patricia Cosand and they have three sons: David, Michael and Steven. Mr. Cosand plays the Steinway piano. Douze Etudes, Op. 10 (a son ami F. Liszt) Allegro Allegro Lento, ma non troppo Presto Vivace ("Black Key") Andante Vivace Allegro Allegro, molto agitato Vivace assai Allegretto Allegro con fuoco ("Revolutionary") Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) Etudes, Op. 18 Bela Barta (1881-1945) Allegro molto Andante sostenuto Rubato; Tempo giusto **There will be a 10-minute intermission** Douze Etudes, Op. 25 (A Madame la Comtesse d'Agoult) Frederic Chopin Allegro sostenuto ("Aeolian Harp") Presto Allegro Agitato Vivace Allegro Lento Vivace Allegro assai ("Butterfly") Allegro con fuoco Lento; Allegro con brio ("Winter Wind") Molto Allegro, con fuoco *************** Out of respect for the performers and those audience members around you, please turn all beepers, cell phones and watches to their silent mode. Thank you.