Pianist Douglas Jurs to Perform Recital at Allegheny College

Nov. 5, 2015 – Pianist Douglas Jurs, assistant professor of music at Allegheny College, will present a free recital at 3:15 p.m. on Saturday, November 14 in the college’s Ford Chapel.

The program will include the “Children’s Corner Suite,” by Claude Debussy; Impromptus, Op. 90, by Franz Schubert; Sonata No. 9, Op. 68, “Black Mass,” by Alexander Scriabin; and “Banjo Quickstep,” by Anthony Philip Heinrich.

Jurs, who is in his first year on the faculty at Allegheny College, has performed throughout North America, Europe and beyond.

Recent performances include a two-week residency in India as a guest of Kolkata Classics, where Jurs presented several collaborative concerts in Kolkata and Jamshedpur, as well as master classes and private lessons for students at the Calcutta School of Music.

Of one of his performances there, The Telegraph wrote, “The performance was spectacular … the pianists had reached a level of near telepathic coordination.” The newspaper went on to note that Jurs was “as impressive as a teacher as he is a performer.”

While on the faculty at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, Georgia, Jurs performed all over the Southeast with colleagues from throughout the state, including principal musicians from the Albany and Valdosta symphonies.

With violinist Brent Williams, member of the award-winning Enhake Quartet, Jurs formed Duo Antheil, a group committed to exploring the diversity of American music for violin and piano.

Other recent partners include members of the Azalea String Quartet, New York pianist Tanya Gabrielian, University of Georgia trumpet professor Brandon Craswell and the internationally acclaimed Present Music Ensemble.

Jurs received his degrees from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, Cleveland Institute of Music and Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he double majored in piano and English literature and was a Friends of Music Fellow.

He lives in Meadville with his wife and two children.