Performance Complimentary and Open to the Public on March 16
(Columbia, Tenn. – March 10, 2011) - - - Columbia State Community College’s Lyceum Committee in conjunction with the Music Department will host special guest Kyle Johnson for a student recital on Wednesday, March 16 at 5 p.m. in the Cherry Theater located in the Waymon L. Hickman building on the Columbia Campus. Johnson, a piano performance major at Belmont University, will perform a program of classical music from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including music by composers Claude Debussy, Frédéric Chopin and Bela Bartok. The event is complimentary and open to the public.
Originally from Lexington, Kentucky, Johnson was involved in music from an early age. He began playing piano at age eight and became a saxophone player at age eleven. Currently Johnson, a junior at Belmont University, is pursuing an undergraduate degree in Piano Performance. He is also active as an accompanist for other Belmont instrumentalists and vocalists as well as accompanist for the University Singers, one of Belmont’s choral ensembles. After graduation, he will pursue a graduate degree in piano performance and hopes to begin a career as a piano teacher.
He has been invited to the 2006 Kentucky Ambassadors of Music program as well as the 2007 Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts. He has competed in the 2010 and 2011 Classical Performers Competition at Belmont, playing Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto and the Poulenc Concerto for Two Pianos, respectively. Johnson recently competed in the 2010 Music Teacher’s National Association Young Artists Piano Competition. Beginning in Fall 2010, Kyle was also selected to be a part of a unique research symposium at Belmont University in which he explored the worlds of Bartók, the Lomax family and ethnomusicology.
For information on this and other Lyceum events, contact the Lyceum Committee by emailing lyceum@columbiastate.edu or visit the Lyceum calendar on the Columbia State website at www.columbiastate.edu/lyceum.
Columbia State is a two-year college, serving a nine-county area in southern Middle Tennessee with locations in Columbia, Franklin, Lawrenceburg, Lewisburg and Clifton. As Tennessee’s first community college, Columbia State is committed to increasing access and enhancing diversity at all five campuses. Columbia State is a member of the Tennessee Board of Regents, the sixth largest higher education system in the nation. For more information, please visit www.columbiastate.edu.
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