International competition winner in concert Friday
PHOTO COURTESY ANASTASIA MIROSLAVSKAYA
Tatiana Dorokhova, the silver medalist of the 2024 Gurwitz International Piano Competition, will perform at 7 p.m. Friday in the Performing Arts Complex on the Edinburg campus.
Juan Muñoz, a program coordinator with the School of Music, said the concert is part of the Distinguished Artist Series.
“We look to bring talent from all over the country and all over, internationally, when possible,” Muñoz said. “And we do look at different lists of … where artists are being featured.”
He said a big part of the list are people who are on the Texas Touring Roster of the Texas Commission on the Arts, and Dorokhova, who is originally from Russia, is one of them.
“She also won prizes in competitions in Russia, Spain, Italy [and] Germany,” Muñoz said. “And another recent accomplishment, [she] was the 2022 New Orleans International Piano Competition winner.”
He encourages the Rio Grande Valley community, faculty, staff and students to attend the concert.
“This is just one of many opportunities for … students to experience, not only the music part of it, but the bigger part is, like, the memories that they’re going to have,” Muñoz said.
Leah Hollingshead, a program specialist for the College of Fine Arts, told The Rider that she recommends students attend Dorokhova’s concert.
“The audience here is anyone who has an interest in not just classical music, but also in art,” Hollingshead said.
She said the concert includes a piece by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky called “Pictures at an Exhibition.”
“They are each inspired by pieces of art in a different exhibition,” Hollingshead said.
She said it is an interesting way to conceptualize how visual art can inspire music.
“College is a great time to broaden your horizons, and our goal is to introduce people both to styles and types of music that they already know and love,” Hollingshead said.
She said events like these help students learn about new ideas.
Claudia Quintana, a music education freshman, told The Rider that she is interested in attending Dorokhova’s concert since she is an artist she does not know.
“As a music major, I need hours of recitals, which means that anything that I have to attend,” Quintana said. “So concerts, all that stuff, counts towards the hours that I need.”
She said it is good to listen to piano music.
“Even if you’re not a [music] major … so you can have different knowledge and different [types] of experiences,” Quintana said.
General admission is $10, $5 for faculty, staff and senior citizens, and free for UTRGV students with a valid ID or the GET app.
Muñoz also encourages the community to attend other UTRGV arts events, such as the Theatre Department’s production of “Mothers and Sons,” which will take place at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Albert L. Jeffers Theatre on the Edinburg campus.
Tickets are $7 to $17 and are available online at utrgv.edu/arts/events.
