The School of Music is pleased to welcome guest pianist Anton Nel, who will be hosting a piano and chamber music masterclass open to the campus community and the general public. All are welcome and admission is free.

On Friday, Nov. 22 at 7:30 p.m., Nel will perform a piano and fortepiano recital concert as part of the 2024-25 Keyboard Series. This is a ticketed event, free for students.

Tickets for the Friday concert performance are $25, general; $20 senior citizen, military; free for students. tickets.pugetsound.edu

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