Concert artist and host of NPR’s “From The Top” to work with area pianists

Concert artist and host of NPR’s “From The Top” to work with area pianists

World-renown concert pianist Christopher O’Riley will lead a piano masterclass featuring three young pianists from the area on Thursday, Sept. 19, at 1 p.m. on the Gaede Stage in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts on the MSUM campus. The event is 90 minutes long, and is free and open to the public. Performers are Brayden Drewlow, Thief River Falls; Elisabeth Sondrol, Fargo; and Youngwon Seo, an MSUM exchange student from South Korea. Works being performed are by Beethoven, Chopin and Debussy. O’Riley is in the community for a 7:30 p.m. performance the same day with cellist Matt Haimovitz on the MSUM campus.