Duo Recital: Cellist Karen Buranskas and Pianist Masako Hayashi Ebbesen will perform works by Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, and Debussy.
Karen Buranskas is a critically acclaimed cello soloist who has performed throughout the United States and Europe as well as in Brazil and Japan. She received a Performers Certificate and Bachelor of Music degree from Indiana University where she was a student of Janos Starker and Fritz Magg.
Masako Hayashi Ebbesen has been active as a soloist and chamber pianist in Japan, France and the USA. She has a B.M. in piano performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and a Master of Music with high distinction from Indiana University at Bloomington.
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.
This concert is part of the James and Rose-Marie Merz Lecture/Concert Series, endowed by the Advisory Council for Graduate Studies and Research. It is dedicated to Dr. Izuo Hayashi, who passed away in 2005. Hayashi was an award-winning physicist who received the prestigious Kyoto Prize in 2001 for his insightful contributions to the development of the semiconductor laser and his leadership of Japanese research in optoelectronics. Hayashi-san was both mentor and personal friend of Jim and Rose-Marie Merz.
The James and Rose-Marie Merz Lecture/Concert Series will also present a lecture by Thomas Ebbesen, director of the International Center for Frontier Research in Chemistry at the University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study. The lecture, “The Alchemy of Vacuum,” will be held on Monday, February 15, at 3 p.m., in the Snite Museum’s Annenberg Auditorium. A reception will follow.