MUSIC

University of St. Thomas presents Music from West Cork, Ireland with David Syme.

Pianist David Syme (pictured), international pianist with a large Irish following, presents a program of virtuoso piano music that he plays throughout the Emerald Isle and on his extensive European tours. The program will include works by Chopin, Liszt, Beethoven, Ravel, Gershwin, Rachmaninoff, and some Irish selections.

Syme is very audience-friendly and de-mystifies the classics in a program that is entertaining, uplifting and light-hearted, punctuated with humorous anecdotes from his long and colorful career.

David Syme, Ireland-based American pianist, has performed in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall, and in major venues in 17 European countries, Canada and Mexico. An alumnus of Juilliard and Indiana University, he was a protege of the legendary Jorge Bolet, and has studied with some of the most renowned teachers in the world. He has recorded 25 CD's with such orchestras as the Royal Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony and the Czech National Symphony. His live recording of the Gershwin Concerto In F from Mexico City is considered to be one of the definitive versions of this work.

This concert is his first public performance in Houston.