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Brevard Music Center sets free concert at UNCA

By Bill Moss, Published: April 2, 2015

The Brevard Music Center in partnership with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute presents its Sundays with Brevard Music Center concert on April 5 at 3 p.m. in the Reuter Center on the campus of UNC Asheville.
The program will feature Brevard Music Center artist faculty member Jason Posnock with pianist Ivan Seng performing works by Mozart, Schnittke, and Brahms.

Violinist Jason Posnock enjoys a versatile musical career both in the United States and internationally. He has performed regularly in such prominent American ensembles as the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and has accompanied them on tours to Europe, South America, the Far East and New York's Carnegie Hall. Concertmaster of the Asheville Symphony Orchestra since 2007, Mr. Posnock has collaborated with such renowned artists as Emanuel Ax, David Krakauer, Ursula Oppens, Andrés Cárdenes, Andrés Díaz, and the American Chamber Players. Presently Mr. Posnock resides with his family in Brevard, NC, serves on the faculty of Brevard College, and is the Director of Artistic Planning & Educational Programs at the Brevard Music Center.

Ivan Seng received his MM from the North Carolina School of the Arts, where he studied piano with Clifton Matthews and composition with Michael Rothkopf. He received his BM from Oberlin Conservatory, where he studied with Joseph Schwartz and Sanford Margolis. Ivan has performed some of the most challenging pieces in the piano repertoire, including Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 in Bb major with the UNCSA orchestra and Beethoven's notoriously difficult Hammerklavier sonata. He currently resides in Asheville, where he collaborates with Pan Harmonia, teaches piano, accompanies, and performs house concerts.

The Sundays with Brevard Music Center series is presented October through May by the Brevard Music Center, a world-renowned summer music institute and festival. The Music Center presents 80 public concerts in the summer season, more than 30 of which have no admission charge.

The series continues on Sunday, May 3, 2015, with a concert by clarinetist Steve Cohen and pianist Kay Kim.

This concert is free and open to the public.