Dr. Jones to perform Monday, March 6

A member of the Department of Creative and Performing Arts faculty at LSMSA will present a piano recital at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, March 6, in the recital hall of the Center for Performance and Technology.

The program performed by Dr. Charles Jones will include solo works by Beethoven and Albeniz and will feature a performance of Mozart’s “Sonata in D Major for Two Pianos” with Jones and special guest Dr. Patrick Widhalm, former LSMSA executive director.

Admission is free and the public is invited to attend.

Jones has been a member of the LSMSA faculty since 1993. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a winner in the UNC Concerto Competition and alternate winner of the NCMTA Collegiate Artist Competition. He holds the Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the University of Texas at Austin.

His teachers have included Walter Westafer, Michael Zenge, Danielle Martin and David Renner.

In 1991, he won second prize at the Bartok-Kabalevsky International Piano Competition.

Prior to his appointment at LSMSA, Jones taught piano and music theory at Limestone College in South Carolina, where he received the Fullerton Merit Award for excellence in teaching.

In 1997, he recorded Bartok’s “Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion” with the Southwestern Chamber Soloists of Texas.

An active member of the Louisiana Music Teachers Association and Music Teachers National Association, he served as LMTA president from 2000-03 and was director of MTNA’s South Central Division and a member of MTNA’s national board of directors from 2010-12. At the 2010 MTNA national conference, he was honored as an MTNA Foundation Fellow. He holds both state and national certification as a piano teacher through LMTA and MTNA.