September 10, 1999
LAWRENCE -- The University of Kansas Visiting Artists Series, sponsored by the Department of Music and Dance, will present cellist Karen Becker and pianist Paul Barnes in recital at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 21, in Swarthout Recital Hall.
Becker and Barnes are members of the music faculty at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she is assistant professor of cello and he is co-chair of piano. Becker is also faculty cellist with Lutheran Summer Music.
Active as a soloist and chamber musician, Becker has performed throughout the United States, Europe and Puerto Rico. She holds music degrees from Ohio University and the University of Texas-Austin.
Barnes recently performed a program featuring contemporary American composers in concerts in Eastern Europe. Barnes is also currently recording a CD series, "The American Piano Concerto," which is distributed by Koch International. He is a graduate of Indiana University.
For the KU recital, the duo will play "Suite No. 3 in C Major for Solo Cello, BWV 1009," by J.S. Bach; "Trés Lent (Hommage à Messiaen)," a 1994 work by Joan Tower; a movement from "Quatuor pour la fun du temps," by Olivier Messiaen; and "Sonata in G minor, op. 19," by Sergei Rachmaninoff.
The recital is free and open to the public.