Music Conference Celebrates Chopin

After 200 Years, We are Still Playing His Music
The Mount Hosts a Global Music Conference

Emmitsburg, MD – Mount St. Mary’s University announces Classical Music in the Age of Globalization, an interdisciplinary music conference celebrating the 200th birthday of the great composer Frederick Chopin, will take place at Mount St. Mary's University on November 5-7, 2010. 

The conference is organized by the American Tribute to Chopin Consortium in arrangement with Intermuse Performing Artists Bureau, and hosted by the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Mount St. Mary's University.  All events will take place in the recently opened Delaplaine Fine Arts Center. 

Featured acclaimed speakers and musicians:

• The American Virtuosi (internationally-acclaimed musical family)
• Cecylia Barczyk (performing and recording cellist, Artistic Director of the International Music Institute and Festival USA, and Professor of Cello at Towson University)
• Charles H. Borowsky (author, concert manager, and social-scientist; founding director of the International Music Institute and Festival USA, editor of Local Music Heritage in the Age of Globalization and Creativity and Innovation in Music published by UNESCO)
• Maxim Gershunoff (director of Gershunoff Artists and author of It's Not All Song and Dance: A Life Behind the Scenes)
• Mount St. Mary's University Chorale
• Andrew Rosenfeld (Chairman of the Visual and Performing Arts Department at Mount St. Mary's University)
• Ann Schein (concert pianist and pedagogue, Professor Emeritus of Peabody Conservatory)
• Cultural attaches from Embassies in Washington D.C. as well as  representatives of music industry, media, and  promoters.

The conference is open to the public. Single and Multiple-Day registrations are available. Tickets to evening performances are included in registration, or may be purchased separately online ($20 general, $10 students) and at the door ($25 general, $15 students). Children up to age 14 may attend performances free.

Friday, November 5 at 7:30 p.m. - Ann Schein, pianist

 Saturday, November 6 at 7:30 p.m. - American Virtuosi and Mount St. Mary's University Chorale

For registration/tickets:

            Web: www.americantributetochopin.org/conference.html

For further information, please contact:

            Dr. Andrew Rosenfeld - Mount St. Mary's University

            Email: arosenfe@msmary.edu / Phone: 301-447-5308

            Ms. Cathy Jones - American Tribute to Chopin Consortium

            Email: chopin@intermusearts.org / Phone: 410-426-6062