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    Date: 3/24/97
      Contact:                           Christina Chapple  95

PIANIST DAVID EVENSON TO PRESENT RECITAL AT SLU
     HAMMOND -- Pianist David Evenson, head of Southeastern Louisiana University's
music department, will present a faculty recital April 3 at SLU's Pottle Music Building
Auditorium.
     The 7:30 p.m. recital is free to the public.
     Evenson will perform Johann Sebastian Bach's "Partita in E Major for Unaccompanied
Violin," "Ludwig van Beethoven's "Sonata in C Major, Op. 2, No. 3," Sergei Rachmaninoff's
"Variations on a Theme of Correli, Op. 42," and Aaron Copland's "Rodeo -- Ballet in One Act."
     Evenson received his bachelor and master of music degrees from Indiana University,
where he was a student of Jorge Bolet. He completed his doctorate at the University of Arizona
as an assistant to Ozan Marsh. He also studied for two summers at the Ecoles des Beaux Arts in
Fountainbleau, France, where he received instruction from Robert Casadesus and Nadia
Boulanger.
     Evenson, who is listed in "American Keyboard Artists," joined Southeastern's faculty in
1979. In 1985 he participated in a chamber music group that toured South America under the
auspices of the United States Information Agency. He assisted in the 1987 Carnegie Recital Hall
premiere of his SLU colleague Stephen Suber's "The Descent" and its subsequent recording by
Opus I Records.
     Evenson and Suber traveled to the Czech Republic to record Suber's "Enchantments:
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra" with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by
Gerald Schwarz, music director of New York's "Mostly Mozart" Festival.
     For additional information, call the SLU music department at 504-549-2184.
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