Free piano recital set for Feb. 20

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Larissa Korkina and Esma Pasic-Filipovic.

Westminster Conservatory at Nassau is set to present a recital two pianists Larissa Korkina and Esma Pasic-Filipovic.

The performance is scheduled for 12:15 p.m. Feb. 20 Niles Chapel of Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau St., Princeton. The recital is free and open to the public.

The artists, both members of the Westminster Conservatory faculty, are set to perform works by Franz Schubert, W. A. Mozart and Johann Nepomuk Hummel.

Korkina studied at the Byelorussian Academy of Music, where she received a Master of Music. She toured Russia, accompanying vocalists and instrumentalists, and was a prizewinner in accompanying in regional and state competitions. As a teacher, she received awards from the Cecilian Club, Piano Teachers’ Association of America and Golden Key Music Festival.

Esma Pasic-Filipovic has a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Musical Arts from the University of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. She has performed and recorded with the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra, and she has been a recitalist, accompanist, and teacher in the former Yugoslavia, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland and the United States.

Westminster Conservatory at Nassau’s next performance featuring clarinet duets performed by Kenneth Ellison and Joseph d’Auguste is scheduled for March 20.

More information is online at rider.edu/arts.

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