In the final installment of the 2011-12 Friday Evening Concert Series pianist Lori Sims will perform The Goldberg Variations and BWV 988 by Johann Sebastian Bach on Friday, April 20, 2012. The concert will begin at 8 p.m. in the Presentation Room of the VisTaTech Center on Schoolcraft College's main campus in Livonia. Tickets are $20 per person, $10 for students with identification.
 

A perennial favorite of Schoolcraft College music aficionados, Sims is an internationally acclaimed performer, master class artist and winner of many competitions, including the First Prize Gold Medal at the 1998 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition. She has performed throughout America, Europe and China. She was the first local artist to be featured at the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival (2000) and her Alice Tully Hall debut (2000) met with critical acclaim from the New York Times.

Sims is the John T. Bernhard Professor of Music at Western Michigan University, where she teaches piano and lectures in accompanying and keyboard literature. Prior to her appointment at Western, she was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Illinois. During the summer, she is an artist-teacher at the Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina and the Internationale Konzertarbeitswochen in
Goslar, Germany.

For more information about the Friday Evening Concert Series or any of the Music Department's other events and programs visit www.schoolcraft.edu/music or call 734-462-4403.