ArtCanisius Meet the Faculty Today
Karen Schmid, Fortepiano will present a mid-day recital today at noon in the Montante Cultural Center. The program will include Beethoven’s Sonata in D Major, Op. 10 no. 3, Chopin’s Etude in A flat Major op. 25 no.1, and Haydn’s Trio in C Major, Hob. XV: 27 with Ansgarius Aylward, violin, and Bryan Eckenrode, cello. The event is free and open to the public.
Fortepianist Karen Schmid, a Buffalo native, has performed nationally and internationally in recital as soloist and in master classes. Schmid studied the fortepiano with Professor Malcolm Bilson of Cornell University, the leading exponent of this instrument in America. She then built her own fortepiano, a replica of a 1774 Stein – Mozart’s own piano – and began touring.
Among the places Schmid has performed are the Boston Early Music Festival, the Early Keyboard Series in Los Angeles, the Monuments en Musique Series in France, NPR’s “Baroque and Beyond” Series, Oberlin Conservatory, Chautauqua Institute, the deYoung Museum Series in San Francisco, the San Jose Chamber Music Series, as well as Friends of Vienna Series in Buffalo, WNED-FM “Music in Buffalo, “Daemen College, and WBFO-FM “Opus: Classics Live.”
She has been on the faculty of Canisius College in the Fine Arts Department teaching piano since 2005.
For more information, please call the Canisius Fine Arts Office at 716-888-2542, write to artscan@canisius.edu, or visit us at canisius.edu/artscanisius.
Submitted by: Martha Malkiewicz, adjunct professor, fine arts/music
