In the University of Natal music department’s free lunch-hour concert in Howard College Theatre on September 8 at 12h15, there will be a piano recital by Sean Schulze, University of Natal graduate and visiting lecturer from the University of Arizona. Multi award-winning Sean Schulze obtained both Bachelors and Masters degrees in piano performance from UND as a student of Isabella Stengel. During this time he achieved nationwide prominence by winning the Oude Meester Music Prize and being a finalist in the Samro and Unisa overseas scholarship competitions.

This year, he completed a doctorate at the University of Arizona. He has performed as a solo and collaborative pianist throughout the Southwestern US and also in California, Texas, New York and Maine. As a member of Duo Medici, Sean Schulze has (with Italian violinist Luca Ciarla) been awarded a prestigious residency by Chamber Music America.

At his UND recital, Sean Schulze will play the Bach/Busoni Chorale Prelude Awake the voice commands, two preludes from Book II by Debussy: Bruyeres and Les fees sont d'exquises danseuses, Chopin’s Nocturne in F sharp minor op 48 no 2 and Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes op 13. Members of the public are welcome to attend.