Garnet Ungar
Tuesday, October 19,
7:30 p.m.
Mozart:
Concerto No. 9 in E-flat
Major;
Chopin:
Fantaisie-Impromptu, Three Mazurkas, Nocturne in C-sharp Minor;
Liszt:
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 11
Pianist Garnet Ungar
has appeared extensively as soloist and chamber musician in the United States
and Canada. His solo performances have been broadcast on Public Radio in Texas
and Indiana, and by the CBC in Canada. Dr. Ungar has appeared as soloist with
the Clear Lake Symphony, the University of Calgary Orchestra, the Oakville
Chamber Ensemble, the Brampton Symphony, the University of Evansville Orchestra,
and the Evansville Philharmonic. He has given recitals and masterclasses at
major universities in Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, California, Texas, and
Indiana, as well as performing in Illinois, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Alberta,
British Columbia, Ontario, and Switzerland. He is a frequent collaborator with
members of the University of Evansville faculty and regularly adjudicates local competitions. His
recording of the Brahms Second Piano Concerto with the Varna Philharmonic in
Bulgaria is distributed nationally on the
Americus
label. A recent glowing
review in Clavier Magazine praised the performance as “powerful and
precise…having solidity and passion, a magisterial presence, structural
integrity, immediacy and intensity.”
Born in Montréal, Québec, Dr.
Ungar obtained degrees in piano performance from the
University of Toronto and
the University of Calgary where he won the annual concerto competition. He
earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Houston, studying
with Abbey Simon and Ruth Tomfohrde. Additional studies include summer sessions
at the Banff School of Fine Arts and the Centre d'Arts Orford in Québec. Garnet
Ungar is currently Associate Professor of Music at the University of Evansville in Indiana and serves on the faculty of the Music at Maple
Mount Summer Institute in Kentucky.
