Published: February 21, 2018
Zamparas, Zdrava to Perform Piano Duo Recital at UT Feb. 23
On Friday, Feb. 23, pianists Grigorios Zamparas and Andi Zdrava will perform a piano duo recital at The University of Tampa's Sykes Chapel and Center for Faith and Values. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
Zamparas and Zdrava will perform works for two pianos by Rachmaninoff, Mozart and Milhaud. The program includes Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos in D major, Rachmaninoff's Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos and Milhaud's Scaramouche.
Zamparas is an associate professor of music and director of piano studies at UT. Over the years, Zamparas has received critical acclaim for his versatile performing career as recitalist, orchestra soloist and chamber musician in Greece, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, former Yugoslavia, Austria, Russia, Brazil, South Korea and the U.S.
Born in Elbasan, Albania, pianist and conductor Zdrava is the music director at Incarnation Catholic Church and School in Sarasota. Zdrava is working on a research project with the rector, Matthew Grady, focused on the impact of music on the academic, social and physical development of students.
For more information, contact Zamparas at gzamparas@ut.edu.
On Sunday, April 8, The University of Tampa’s 2017-2018 Sykes Chapel Concert Artist Series will conclude with a performance by the Philadelphia Brass, called “one of the gems of Philadelphia’s cultural life” by NPR’s Martin Goldsmith. The concert begins at 2 p.m. in the Sykes Chapel and Center for Faith and Values and is free and open to the public.
The concert will have a special emphasis on American music, featuring works by Jennifer Higdon, Aaron Copland, Duke Ellington and Frank Loesser, among others.
On Friday, March 30, The University of Tampa will welcome pianist Frederick Moyer — hailed by The New York Times as “first-class” and The Milwaukee Journal as “a superstar pianist” — for a guest recital. The concert, which is free and open to the public, begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Plant Hall Grand Salon.
The program for the performance will include works by Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Oscar Peterson.
“There are a lot of stereotypes and studies that say boys aren’t as good in second language acquisition as females,” said Harrington, who worked with Assistant Professor Andrew DeMil on the research project, “Gender differences in Spanish Language Learning: Speaking Exams,” which they presented at the Florida Undergraduate Research Conference in February and to the UT Board of Trustees March 22.
“We wanted to do a study of our own here at UT. In the previous year (DeMil) had studied reading comprehension of girls versus boys, so we wanted to study speaking this year,” said Harrington, of Maple Grove, MN. “The results were the same though. The boys aren’t any worse, if not the same, as females. They are just extremely underrepresented.”