Pianist Ioannis Potamousis Plays the Ware Center, 4/6

On Saturday, April 6, 7:30 p.m The Ware Center presents the music of pianists: Ioannis Potamousis and Anita Renfroe. Ioannis is the Chair of the Music Department of Brighton University in Abu Dhabi. He returns to perform this one-time only piano concert with Dr. Anita Renfroe, who is Professor of Music & Director of Keyboard Studies at Millersville University.

The duo will be playing duel-piano works by Shostakovich, Saint-Saens/Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Borodin and Ravel. Their last performance together -- at this same time last year at the Ware Center -- played to a nearly sold-out audience.

Ioannis Potamousis described by the Pasatiempo as "New Colossus of the keys" is internationally acclaimed as a charismatic and passionate performer, known for his captivating artistry and introspective, poetic expression.

"Great brilliance," said the Cincinnati Post. The Gulf News wrote: "...It was worth just to
listen to Potamousis play Liszt's Spanish Rhapsody. As we watched the pianist lose himself, we too became mesmerized by the music which took our breath away....", "...anyone should watch Potamousis in action- he is thunderous one moment, comedic the next, then delicate as air."

Potamousis' performances have taken him to important international venues in Europe and the Middle East as well as across North America. He has played at the Athens Concert Hall, the international summer festival and, on his recent Middle Eastern tour, to concert halls in Jerusalem, Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

In New York, he has played in the Trinity Church Concert Series, the Mannes Festival and at Steinway Hall, the Harvard Club and the Metropolitan Club. He has performed concertos with New York's New Amsterdam Symphony, the Collegium Musicum of Cologne, the Summit Festival Orchestra, the Athens State Orchestra, the New Jersey City Symphony Orchestra and the Rutgers Symphony Orchestra.

Ioannis Potamousis is a prizewinner of several international piano contests, including the World Piano Competition in Cincinnati (Silver Medal), the International Piano Competition in Santa Fe, New Mexico (First prize), and concerto competitions such as NASO, in New York, and Rutgers University, in New Jersey. He holds degrees from Musikhochschule Cologne, New York's Mannes College of Music and Rutgers University, where he received a Doctorate.

Anita Boyle Renfroe earned her degrees in piano performance-the Bachelor of Music from Florida State University, the Master of Music from Memphis State University, and the Doctor of Musical Arts from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary School of Music in Louisville, Kentucky.

Piano and harpsichord performances take Dr. Renfroe throughout the United States and Europe. Concert venues in Europe include performances in Heidelberg, Frankfort, and Stuttgart, Germany as well as Grenoble and Nohant, France. Renfroe's solos recitals in Washington D.C. include the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts, the Organization of American States, the National Air and Space Museum, the World Bank, the British Embassy, the Folger Library, as piano soloist with the Fairfax Chamber Orchestra and as organ soloist with the Arlington Symphony Orchestra.

Ticket Information: The concert is open to the public. Tickets are $15 for general admission; free for all students. Tickets may be purchased by calling 717-872-3811 or 717-871-2307. Online, at Millersville.edu/MUARTS. Or in person, at the Ware Center Box Office (42 N. Prince St., Lancaster) and the Student Memorial Center Ticket Office (Room 103, 21 S. George St., Millersville). Ticket Offices are open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. and one hour prior to the performance.

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