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Pianist Jonathan Bowman in BYU guest recital Oct. 12

Pianist Jonathan Bowman will present a guest recital Tuesday, Oct. 12, at 7:30 p.m. in the Madsen Recital Hall at Brigham Young University. Admission is free.

Bowman will perform works by Alexander Scriabin, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven and Frederic Chopin.

A BYU graduate, Bowman has been playing the piano since he was 8. He has performed at multiple international competitions, winning two first-place finishes at the International Piano Competition for Five Piano Ensembles in 1996 and 2005. He has also won the solo and concerto competitions at the Young Artists’ International Piano Competition at the Eastman School of Music.

He has given solo recitals around the United States as well as in Italy, Japan and Germany. Most recently he has performed with the Southwest Symphony, as guest artist at Washington State University’s celebration of George Gershwin and on the radio playing new music by John Liberatore and Victoria Bond.

For more information, contact Ken Crossley at (801) 422-9348 or e-mail ken_crossley@byu.edu.

Writer: Brandon Garrett

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