Spring 2025 Graduates and Alumni Highlights: Spring and Summer, 2025

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Spring 2025 Graduate Highlights

Eleftherios Chasanidis (DMA Vocal Performance ’25) served on the Examining Committee of Hellenic College Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, Massachusetts, May 2, 2025, to examine candidates for the Holy Cross Certificate in Byzantine Music. Holy Cross annually bestows a Certificate of Byzantine Music to graduates of its program in the Psaltic Art and other individuals who have received their training elsewhere and reached an adequate level of knowledge and skills in the sacred art of chanting.

Guest Artist Recital: Robert McDonald, piano

Robert McDonald headshot with the text Robert McDonald, piano
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Ramsey Concert Hall in the UGA Performing Arts Center
Free Events
Guest Artists
ABOUT ROBERT MCDONALD

Pianist Robert McDonald has toured extensively as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia, and South America. He has performed with major orchestras in the U.S. and was a recital partner with violinist Isaac Stern for many years. He has participated in the Marlboro, Casals, and Lucerne festivals, performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and for broadcasts over BBC Television. He has also appeared with the Takács, Vermeer, Juilliard, Brentano, Borromeo, American, Shanghai, and St. Lawrence string quartets as well as with Musicians from Marlboro. McDonald’s prizes include the gold medal at the Busoni International Piano Competition, the top prize at the William Kapell International Competition, and the Deutsche Schallplatten Critics Award. His teachers include Theodore Rehl, Seymour Lipkin, Rudolf Serkin, Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Beveridge Webster, and Gary Graffman. He holds degrees from Lawrence University, the Curtis Institute of Music, Juilliard, and the Manhattan School of Music. McDonald has taught at the Curtis Institute, where he holds the Penelope P. Watkins Chair in piano studies, since 2007. During the summer, he is the artistic director of New Mexico’s Taos School of Music and Chamber Music Festival.

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