PIANIST DANIEL LAWSON TO PERFORM RECITAL AT WILSON COLLEGE ON AUGUST 21

CHAMBERSBURG.  Pianist Daniel Lawson will be performing a recital on Tuesday, August 21at 7:00 pm in Thomson Alumnae Chapel, Wilson College, 1015 Philadelphia Ave., Chambersburg, PA.  Admission is free.

Daniel, 19, has completed one year at Houghton College as a piano performance major, spending the second semester in London, England with the Houghton College First-Year Honors Program.  He is an alumni of the Cumberland Valley School of Music, where he was a three time CVSM Merit Award Winner (2003, 2004 and 2005) and studied piano with Jeffrey Noll (1999 – 2006).  This summer, he has worked as accompanist at several CVSM camps, including Voice & Drama Camp, Showstoppers, and Stage Odyssey. 

The program for the concert will include Sonnetto 104 del Petrarca by Franz Liszt, La Cathédrale Engloutie, No. 10 from Préludes I by Claude Debussy, Valse in F-Sharp Minor (Posthumous) by Frederic Chopin, Romance, Op. 118, No. 5 by Johannes Brahms, Polonaise, “The Heroic,” Op. 53, No. 1 by Frederic Chopin, Gnossienne No.1 by Erik Satie, and a duet with pianist Lawra Gudgeon on Sonata for Piano, Four Hands by Francis Poulenc.  (Actual program is subject to change.)

            The Cumberland Valley School of Music is a non-profit certified member of the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, with nearly 600 students and 53 faculty members and locations in Chambersburg, Waynesboro, and Mercersburg.  For more information call (717)-261-1220.