Seth Carlin to perform Luther College Guest Recital Nov. 9 as part of 2007 Dorian Keyboard Festival

Pianist Seth Carlin will perform a guest recital on the Luther College campus Friday, Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m. as part of the 2007 Dorian Keyboard Festival. The recital will be held in the Noble Recital Hall of the Luther Jenson-Noble Music Hall.

Other festival weekend events include student recitals on Saturday, Nov. 10, 4:30 p.m. in both the Noble Recital Hall and the Choir Room of the Luther Jenson-Noble Music Hall, as well as at 7 p.m. in the Noble Recital Hall. Carlin will also present a master class at noon Sunday, Nov. 11 in the Noble Recital Hall.

The festival weekend events are open to the public with no charge for admission.

Carlin is professor of music and head of the piano program at Washington University in St. Louis. The last two years Carlin has performed with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra as a soloist in Beethoven’s “Triple Concerto” and as a soloist with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in concerts in California. Recently, he has performed internationally in concert in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.

He has been celebrated by critics and audiences for his performances on the modern piano and eighteenth and nineteenth century fortepianos. Conductors such as Leonard Slatkin, Nicholas McGegan and Roger Norrington have directed his soloist appearances. He has appeared in concert with performers Pinchas Zukerman, Malcolm Bilson, James Buswell and Anner Bylsma.

Carlin’s breadth of successes and appearances are further demonstrated by performance with the Boston “Pops,” the Cambridge Society for Early Music in the prestigious New York “On Original Instruments” series at Merkin Hall and Toronto’s Tafelmusik. He has appeared in concert at the Festival of Two Worlds in Italy, the Marlboro Music Festival, the Newport Music Festival in Rhode Island, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the Great Performers at Lincoln Center Mozart Marathon.

In addition, Carlin has recorded for Titanic and Naiad records, his Sonatas and Bagatelles by Beethoven named “Recording of the Month” by Alte Musik Actuelle magazine.

At age nine young Carlin performed a piece written especially for him over radio broadcast and since continued to perform in concert. The official mark of the beginning of his career, however, came after his study in Paris and his decision to pursue a professional career in music rather than follow his original interest in science.

Carlin has studied piano with Rosina Lhevinne, Jules Gentil and Morton Estrin, and interpretation with Wilhelm Kempff.

In 1992 and 1993 Carlin performed the cycle of complete Schubert fortepiano sonatas in St. Louis and New York City. He also received top awards from the International Busoni Competition, a special scholarship from the French government and the fully funded National Endowment for the Arts recitalist grant in 1989.

Carlin holds the bachelor’s degree in music, cum laude, from Harvard College and the master’s degree in piano from Juilliard School of Music and from the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris (Licence de Concert, premier nomé à l’unanimité).