The UTC Music Dept. is proud to present UTC Professor David Walters in a piano recital with guests Eric Reed, Cello, Gordy Nichols, Bass, and Jo Whitaker, Drums. The performance will be on Saturday, November 6, at 7:30 PM in the UTC Fine Arts Center Roland Hayes Hall, 725 Vine St., Chattanooga. The concert is presented free of charge and is open to the general public.

Mr. Walters’ program for the evening features a mix of classical music and jazz, including compositions that might be considered a hybrid of the two styles. Among the highlights of the program are “Baroque in Rhythm” from Claude Bolling’s Suite for Cello and Jazz Piano Trio, the Chopin “Nocturne in F-Sharp Major, Op. 15, No. 2, and “Sonata for Cello and Piano in G Minor, Op. 65”, and excerpts from Nicolai Kapustin’s Twenty-Four Preludes, Op. 53. The evening will conclude with a set of jazz standards by the David Walters Trio.

Claude Bolling is a French composer, jazz pianist, and arranger. He has scored over 100 films but he is most famous for a series of compositions which blend jazz and classical elements. The Suite for Cello and Jazz Piano Trio is one of those. Chopin’s "Sonata for Cello and Piano in G Major" will combine Mr. Walters with Eric Reed for this composition written at the time when Chopin’s celebrated relationship with George Sand (pen name of Amantine Lucile Dupin, a famous French author) was dissolving and was premiered at Chopin’s last public concert. Kapustin is a Ukranian composer who prefers to utilize more traditional forms and structures in his compositions than those used in jazz, including the sonata-allegro form and the prelude and fugue form.

David Walters currently serves on the piano faculties of The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and the Cadek Conservatory of Music, where he teaches classical and jazz piano. A highly versatile performer, Mr. Walters has performed at universities throughout the region. Included in the jazz trio’s many performances are three appearances at Chattanooga’s prestigious Riverbend Festival, for which the group received rave notices. Mr. Walters received his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees in piano performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Olga Conus, David Bar-Illan, and Richard Morris.

For more information regarding UTC music dept. events, please visit our website at http://utc.edu/music or phone the music office at 423-425-4601.