Music Program Presents
TODAY AT NOON! Peter Pesic Piano Concert
Born in San Francisco of Serbian parents, he was educated at Harvard and Stanford, where he received a doctorate in physics and subsequently taught in its program on Structured Liberal Education. At Stanford, he studied piano with Naomi Sparrow and performed with the new music ensemble Alea 2; he then attended the Aspen Music School.
In the course of three hundred concerts he has surveyed the music of Schubert, Bach, Haydn, Beethoven, and Schoenberg; he has given premieres of works by Nicolas Roussakis, David Lang, and Lawrence Cave. He has given concerts with sopranos Danielle DeNiese and Helen Vanni, cellists Yehuda Hanani, Wayne Foster Smith, and Antonio Lysy, and pianist Vitya Vronsky.
On the faculty of St. John's College in Santa Fe since 1980, he has been deeply involved in its unified curriculum based on close study and discussion of great works, especially in shaping its unique program of study in laboratory science, mathematics, and music.
Besides the newly formed Science Institute (which offers week-long intensive seminars on important texts in science and mathematics for teachers and other interested participants), he is editor-in-chief ofPhysics in Perspective and an Associate of the Department of Physics at Harvard University.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Location: Bard Hall