Julie Fairless Performs in Malone University (Canton, OH) Piano Ensemble Recital on March 10

2014 Mar 4

Malone University's Department of Music will present a piano ensemble recital on Monday, March 10 at 7:30 p.m. in the Worship Center of the Johnson Center for Worship and the Fine Arts, located on the campus at 2600 Cleveland Avenue N.W. in Canton. The program – directed by Michael Benson, D.M.A. – is free and open to the public.

Julie Fairless, a senior music education major from North Canton, Ohio will be performing on the piano.

Michael Benson, D.M.A., and nationally certified teacher of music, serves as the coordinator of keyboard studies in the Department of Music at Malone University. He has performed at the Smithsonian Institution, Steinway Hall, and Preston Bradley Hall on the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series and has contributed piano pedagogy articles to Texas Music Teacher, American Music Teacher, Teaching Music, Keyboard Companion, Clavier and the on-line journal Piano Pedagogy Forum. In March 2011, he began a two-year appointment as a member of the editorial committee for Music Teachers National Associations e-Journal. During the summer, he is on the piano faculty at Interlochen Summer Arts Camp where he teaches in the advanced junior piano program and co-teaches the high school piano pedagogy course. During fall 2001, he was invited to teach piano and group piano as a foreign expert in the People’s Republic of China at JiMei University. He holds degrees in piano performance from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University where he studied piano with Robert Roux and The University of Texas at Austin where he studied piano and piano pedagogy with Martha Hilley, Sophia Gilmson and Nancy Garrett.

Malone University (Canton, Ohio), a Christian university for the arts, sciences, and professions in the liberal arts tradition, affiliated with the Evangelical Friends Church, awards both undergraduate and graduate degrees in more than 100 academic programs. Malone has been recognized by the prestigious Templeton Foundation as a leader in character development, as one of Northeast Ohio’s Top Workplaces by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, is ranked among the top colleges and universities in the Midwest under the category Regional Universities according to U.S. News & World Report’s America’s Best Colleges 2014, and is named to AffordableCollegesOnline (ACO)’s Best Lifetime Return on Investment list for the State of Ohio.