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Up-and-coming young pianist Nino P. Cocchiarella will present two concerts at Ball State University

Up-and-coming young pianist Nino P. Cocchiarella will present two concerts at Ball State University's Pruis Hall on Tuesday, January 16th and Wednesday, January 17th, both at 7:30 PM.  Tuesday's concert will be a solo piano recital of works by Handel and Debussy, with a performance of Mussorgsky's ever-popular "Pictures at an Exhibition" synthesized with Mr. Cocchiarella's own nature photography.   On Wednesday Mr. Cocchiarella is joined by Gregory Maytan on violin and Sophie Webber on cello for an evening of chamber music.  The group will perform Beethoven's "Ghost Trio" and Arensky's Trio in D Minor.

Tickets are $15 at the door, and $10 in advance.  A special student discount will be offered at $8 per ticket. To order tickets or for ticket information, call toll free 877-993-6367.

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Nino P. Cocchiarella performs full-time as a soloist across the world, having been acclaimed by the New York Times as "particularly impressive."  At only 23 years old, he is "a pianist on a roll," according to the Evansville Courier and Press, thrilling audiences with over 100 concerts a year.  This fall's touring brought him to Hawaii, Vermont, Texas, Indiana, and South Korea, with engagements that include major performance venues, such as the Honolulu Academy of the Arts, as well as his own entrepreneurial concert series projects and many private house concerts.

Nino is also in demand as a teacher and lecturer at several universities, with upcoming speaking and masterclass engagements at the University of Evansville, Brigham Young University, and Busan University.  He is currently on the piano faculty at the University of Evansville.

Nino has produced three internationally distributed CD recordings through Mr. Owl Productions.  His discography includes works by Handel, Schubert, Chopin, Mussorgsky, Schumann, and Brahms. "CDBaby.com" calls his Schubert Wanderer Fantasy "the most powerful performance of the Wanderer Fantasy I've ever heard."

Last year Nino launched his new "Pictures Project," a piano recital that adds another dimension to the solo concert experience by synthesizing portions of the program with his own nature photography. Nino carefully designs and plans each show to illustrate and enhance the different moods as they change through the piece, as well as to reveal an insight into his unique musical interpretations.  The original "Pictures Project" was inspired by Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition."

Nino has many competition prizes, including the Best Solo Performance Award in the Corpus Christi International Competition, 1st prizes in the Music Teachers' National Association piano competition, the National Foundation for Advancement of the Arts music competition, the National Society of Arts and Letters Competition, the Indianapolis Concerto Competition, and the IU Concerto Competition.

He graduated from Indiana University in 2004 as a student of Menahem Pressler and Edward Auer.

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