Featured Artists and Faculty
Every month visual artists, musicians, actors and other performers, as well as members of the Johnson State College faculty liven up the Dibden stage and galleries. Read below to learn more about artists that Dibden is hosting, or explore the links to the left to find out about other featured artists, events and faculty.
Pianist Ian Altman
At Dibden on March 25, 2009 at 7 p.m.
Concert pianist Ian Altman will be performing the Sonata in B Minor of Franz Liszt on March 25 at 7 p.m. at Johnson State College's Dibden Center for the Arts. A heroic work, the Liszt sonata is a milestone piece for the Romantic-style solo concert pianist. It is musically grand in its scope, following classical sonata form but having first been developed and expanded to include pyrotechnics and drama that show the piano’s 19th century engineering developments as well as the solo performer’s new expertise of that age. Also included on the program will be three Scarlatti sonatas and a selection of Chopin works.
Altman, a professor at Mercer College in Macon, Georgia, began his solo performing career at age 12, and was accepted as a special student of Franciszek Zachara at Florida State University. At 17, he entered the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, still performing in recitals. He also studied with the renowned Israeli pianist, David Bar-Illan. In addition to romantic piano music, Altman also programs music of the twentieth century masters such as Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Prokofiev and has appeared with orchestras and as a chamber soloist.
