CELEBRATION!
Saturday, Oct. 7, 2006
Ames City Auditorium. 7:30 pm

Featuring:

Ralph Votapek, Guest Soloist

Shostakovich: Festival Overture
Borodin: Symphony No. 2
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2

Central Iowa Symphony has teamed with ISU, Town & Gown, AIOFA and the Iowa State Center to bring Ralph Votapek for a week-long Artist-in-Residence in Ames. The CIS performance is one of three concerts that Votapek will perform plus master's classes at ISU, Drake University and Graceland University.

Other Votapek performances
Friday, September 29, 7:30 p.m., Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall, ISU Music Building, piano and duo-piano with his wife Albertine.

Thursday, October 5, 10 a.m., Creative Connections Concert with ISU Symphony, Stephens Auditorium.

About Ralph Votapek
He is winner of the prestigious Naumburg Award and Gold Medalist in the first Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. He has made hundreds of appearances with major American orchestras as well as numerous concerto and recital appearances abroad. He has made a special commitment to Latin America, where he has toured every other year for three decades.

He began his musical education at age nine, when he enrolled in the Wisconsin Conservatory. He continued his studies at Northwestern University and subsequently attended the Manhattan School of Music and The Juilliard School. He presently serves as Artist-in-Residence at Michigan State University in East Lansing.

Concert Conversations
An informal program with Maestro Hannon will begin at 6:45 p.m. in the Ames City Council Chambers.