Oakton Six Piano Ensemble Performs April 20

SALISBURY, MD -- The Oakton Six Piano Ensemble, a student-performing group at Oakton Community College in Des Plaines, IL, performs at Salisbury University on Saturday, April 20, at 7 p.m. in Holloway Hall Auditorium. Admission to the concert is free and the public is invited.

Formed in 1980, the Oakton Six performs original arrangements from the classical, ragtime and popular repertoire that are transcribed from the pianos by the ensemble's founder and conductor, Glenna Sprague, professor and coordinator of music at Oakton, where she teaches piano.

Each member of the Oakton Ensemble plays a different part, creating an "orchestra" of six pianos-with the melody flowing from pianist to pianist-that results in an extraordinary sound, as if emanating from two pianos.

The highly acclaimed ensemble has performed at the International Conference of the College Music Society in Vienna, Austria; the Music Teachers National Association state conventions; the Chicago Civic Opera House; the College Music Society Great Lakes Conference at Michigan State University; and the Performing Artists Series at National-Louis University.

In addition to her teaching responsibilities, Sprague is an active performer, clinician and adjudicator. She has served as a panelist on the Illinois Arts Council, the National Conference of Piano Pedagogy and the Illinois Board of Higher Education. A magna cum laude graduate of the Conservatory of Music of Capital University, she received her Master of Music from Ohio University.

For more information on the concert please call the SU Public Relations Office at 410-543-6030 or go to the SU Web site at www.salisbury.edu.