Musical masterpieces of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries will come alive Saturday when Audrey Kaiser performs for area residents at an Ironton Council for the Arts production.

Tuesday, April 11, 2000

Musical masterpieces of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries will come alive Saturday when Audrey Kaiser performs for area residents at an Ironton Council for the Arts production.

The concert, which will feature the works of two living American composers – William Bolcom and Richard Cumming – will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Ohio University Southern Campus Riffe Auditorium. Tickets will be available at the door. Adult general admission is $6. Senior citizens and students pay only $5.

An assistant professor of Music at Marshall University, Ms. Kaiser has enjoyed a diverse musical career.

She tours with a popular music/show act called the "Two of Hearts," and she has produced and arranged four albums of cover tunes, as well as an album of original popular and country tunes.

At this April’s performance, Ms. Kaiser will perform both classical and ragtime piano music. Her program will include an international mix of composers from the U.S., France and Brazil.

One of the featured composers in the program, William Bolcom was an instrumental force in the ragtime revival of the 1970s.

Ms. Kaiser has been performing for more than a decade and has appeared on the S.S. Norway and at supper clubs in New England, Virginia Beach, West Virginia, Florida, Minnesota and Colorado

Ms. Kaiser received her bachelor of music degree in piano performance as a piano scholarship student at Rhode Island College in Providence, R.I. In 1996, Ms. Kaiser graduated Marshall University, summa cum laude, with a master of arts in piano performance.

As an accompanist at Marshall University, she performed faculty and student recitals, and served as an accompanist for "The Instrumentalist," a series for WPBY-TV.

Ms. Kaiser’s academic honors include membership in Who’s Who Among Students in Colleges and Universities and the National Dean’s List.

Ms. Kaiser has served as a part-faculty member at Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky.; the University of Charleston in Charleston, W.Va.; and as a teaching assistant in music theory at the University of Kentucky.

She is now a candidate for the doctor of musical arts in piano performance at the University of Kentucky.

Currently, Ms. Kaiser is an assistant professor at Marshall University, where she teaches classical piano, jazz piano and music theory.