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Gold Medal Pianist to Perform at Oglethorpe's
Conant Center
Atlanta - Lori Sims, Gold Medal Recipient of the 1998
Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition will perform Tuesday,
September 22, 1998, at 8 p.m. in the Conant Performing Arts Center
at Oglethorpe University. The concert is free and open to the
public.
Sims will perform Muzio Clementi’s Sonata in F-sharp Minor, Op.
25, No. 5; Nicolas Medtner’s Theme and Variations in C-sharp Minor,
Op. 55, No.1; Samuel Barber’s Sonata, Op. 26; and Robert Schumann’s
Davidsbundlertanze, Op. 6.
Sims, a native of Colorado, holds degrees from the Peabody
Conservatory of Music and Yale University, as well as an Artist
Diploma from the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater in Hannover,
Germany. Her teachers have included Leon Fleisher, Daniel Pollack,
and Claude Frank in this country and Arie Vardi in Hannover.
Sims has appeared as soloist with the Indianapolis Symphony
Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic, and the Denver Chamber
Orchestra. Her solo recitals include appearances at the Chicago
Cultural Center, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in Urbana,
Illinois, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and the Scholss Stade and
Listerturm in Germany. She records for Deutschland Radio in Berlin.
Among the numerous awards and prestigious competitions she has
won are first place at the Mendelssohn Competition in Berlin and the
Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition at Yale University. In 1993, she
won the American Pianists Association National Piano Competition
with special merit from the jury which resulted in a three-year
fellowship with performance opportunities throughout the United
States.
In one of her most recent international accomplishments, she
"stole the stage" performing Prokofiev’s Concerto No. 3 in C Major,
Op. 26 with the Utah Symphony in late June of this past summer at
Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City. The next night, after a standing
ovation from the audience, Sims received the coveted Gold Medal from
the 1998 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition. She was
given the original key to her new Steinway & Sons Model L Grand
Piano, a $10,000 cash prize and an additional $500 award for "Best
Performance of a Work of Schubert or Brahms" during the Competition.
On Monday, June 29, her Bachauer performance was featured on
National Public Radio’s Performance Today.
Sims previously served on the faculty of the University of
Illinois and is currently a faculty member at Western Michigan
University.
Oglethorpe University is an independent, highly selective liberal
arts university located at 4484 Peachtree Road, NE in Atlanta. This
concert is sponsored by the University Program Committee.
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