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News Bureau
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71497
(318) 357-6466

2/5/2001

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NATCHITOCHES - Pianist Constance Carroll will present a recital at Northwestern State University Sunday, Feb. 11 at 3 p.m. in Magale Recital Hall. Admission is free and open to the public.

The program will include "Sonata in b Minor" by Franz Joseph Haydn, "Piano Pieces, Op. 76" by Johannes Brahms, "Preludes, Book II" by Claude Debussy and "Sonata in b minor, Opus 58" by Frederic Chopin.

Carroll has been widely acclaimed as a recitalist, chamber musician, and orchestral soloist. She has been described by David Connelly of the Shreveport Journal as "a valuable ­ one of our most valuable ­ artistic resources."

Carroll has been the featured artist at conventions of the State Music Teachers Associations throughout the country. She has also given lecture recitals at several National MTNA Conventions. Equally adept as a teacher and lecturer, she numbers among her students' winners of local and regional competitions, and has presented recitals, master classes and lectures at numerous universities and colleges throughout the country. Most recently, her student Qiao-Shuang Xian was the MTNA National Collegiate Artist winner.

A native of Arizona, Carroll began piano studies at the age of five. She received her principal training at the University of Arizona and did additional study at the Eastman School of Music. At Eastman, Carroll won the coveted performers' certificate along with a master of music degree. Carroll also studied in Vienna and Salzburg as a Fulbright scholar. She has won numerous awards and honors at national and international competitions, including The Naumburg Competition, The Young Artist Competition of the National Federation of Music Clubs, The Brevard Music Festival Young Artist Award and the Maria Canals International Competition for Piano in Barcelona, Spain.

Following study as a Fulbright Scholar, Carroll was appointed to the music faculty at Louisiana State University. Subsequently, she taught at Wisconsin State University and Lenoir-Rhyne College, and was artist-in-residence at Centenary College of Louisiana for twenty-one years. She was reappointed to the faculty at Louisiana State University in 1995, and in l996 was designated the Aloysia Landry Barineau Professor of Keyboard Studies.

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