CONSTANCE CARROLL has received acclaim for her performance as a recitalist, chamber musician, and orchestral soloist, and the press have praised her "effortless grace" and "high intelligence." The featured artist at conventions of the state Music Teachers Associations of New York, North and South Carolina, Virginia, Alabama, Oklahoma, Georgia, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, and Louisiana, Ms. Carroll has also given lecture-recitals at the National MTNA Conventions in Houston, Chicago, and most recently, in Kansas City. Equally adept as a teacher and lecturer, she numbers among her students winners of local and regional competitions, and has presented recitals, master classes and lectures at numerous universities and colleges throughout the country. Most recently, her student Qiao-Shuang Xian was the MTNA National Collegiate Artist winner (Nashville, 1998). A native of Arizona, Constance Carroll began piano studies at the age of five. She received her principal training from Julia Rebeil at the University of Arizona. Further study led her to the Eastman School of Music where she studied Jose Echaniz and won the coveted performers' certificate along with a Master of Music degree. Additional study during these years was with Frank Mannheimer (while she was a Fulbright student in Vienna, Austria), Rosina Lhevinne, and Silvio Scionti. Ms. Carroll has won numerous awards and honors at national and international competitions, including the Naumburg Competition, the Young Artist Competition of the National Federation of Music Clubs, the Brevard Music Festival Young Artist Award, and The Maria Canals International Competition for Piano in Barcelona, Spain. Following study as a Fulbright scholar in Vienna and Salzburg, Ms. Carroll was appointed to the music faculty at Louisiana Sate University. Subsequently, she was artist-in-residence at Centenary College of Louisiana for twenty-one years. Carroll was reappointed to the faculty at Louisiana State University in 1995, and in 1996 was designated the Aloysia Landry Barineau Professor of Keyboard Studies. In recent years, Ms. Carroll has been on the faculties of Brevard Music Center, the University of Houston High School Piano Camp, the Frank Mannheimer Piano Festival, the University of Kansas Piano Institute, and served as artist-juror at the New Orleans Institute for the Performing Arts. In March 2001, she was an adjudicator for the National Finals of the MTNA Student Competitions in Washington, D.C. Later that spring she was honored with an Excellence in Teaching Award by LSU, and she recently was given the Outstanding Teacher of 2001 Award by LMTA. In the spring of 2002, she was honored at the MTNA national conference in Cincinnati, Ohio by being designated an MTNA Foundation Fellow. Ms. Carroll has recently performed with the Baton Rouge, Acadiana, and Shreveport Symphonies, and was invited to play a recital at Centenary College in observance of the 150th anniversary of the School of Music.

PROGRAM

Four Sonatas D minor, Kirk. 1 E major, Kirk. 162 C minor, Kirk. 11 G major, Kirk. 13 Sonata in F minor, Op. 57, "Appassionata" Allegro assai Andante con moto Allegro ma non troppo

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) Ludwig von Beethoven (1770-1827)

INTERMISSION

Ballade No. 3 in A-flat, op. 47 For the left hand alone Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op. 9, no. 1 Nocturne in D-flat, Op. 9, no. 2 Au bord d'une source Meine Freude (My Joys) La campanella (The Bell)

Frédéric Chopin (1810-49) Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) Franz Liszt (1811-86) Chopin-Liszt Paganini-Liszt