The School of Music is pleased to welcome guest pianist Anton Nel for a piano/fortepiano recital concert as part of the 2024-25 Keyboard Series. The program will include music by Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Cecile Chaminade, Claude Debussy, and Fryderyk Chopin.

Described by the New York Times as "...An uncommonly elegant pianist," Nel began his career at age 12 and has won numerous prizes, including first prize in the 1987 Naumburg International Piano Competition at Carnegie Hall. For the past four decades, he has enjoyed a remarkable and multifaceted career, having performed in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and South Africa; with the Cleveland Orchestra, and the symphonies of Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, Seattle, Detroit, and London, among many others. He has an active repertoire of more than 100 works for piano and orchestra, and is an acclaimed Beethoven interpreter.

Anton Nel practices a dual career in teaching and performing, and was appointed to the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin in his early twenties, followed by professorships at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Michigan. 

He will become a member of the piano faculty at The Royal Conservatory of Music's Glenn Gould School as of the 2025-26 academic year.

Nel graduated from the University of Witwatersrand, and the University of Cincinnati.

Visit Anton Nel's web page.

This performance is sponsored by the Catharine Gould Chism Fund for the Humanities and is part of the School of Music's second annual Keyboard Series. 

Tickets for this performance are $25, general; $20 senior citizen, military; free for students.