Pianist Paul Barnes will perform “Love, Death and Resurrection in the Musical Vision of Glass, Bond, Liszt and Byzantine Chant” at 3 p.m. March 3 in Kimball Recital Hall.
The faculty recital/lecture, which will be streamed live online, is free and open to the public.
The repertoire grew from grief Barnes experienced after the cancer-related deaths of close friends in summer 2017. In response to the deaths, Barnes developed the lecture/recital, exploring the musical treatment of love and death in the music of Philip Glass, Victoria Bond, Franz Liszt and Byzantine chants.
Barnes, a professor of music at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, previously worked with Glass and Bond as both composers have written multiple pieces for him. A number of the works are based on Byzantine chants. Barnes has also specialized in the works of Liszt, including a focus on religious symbolism in the composers piano music.
Barnes teaches during the summer at the Vienna International Piano Academy and the Amalfi Coast Music Festival. He has served as an artist at several state Music Teachers National Association conventions and was recently named “Teacher of the Year” by the Nebraska Music Teachers Association.
