| Show 44 L t r E p v 1 v 1 ty I 5 PIANISTS DUO-PIANISTS FRANCES VERI and Michael Jamanis associated with Columbia Artists Inc of NY will be Community ty Concert guest stars F Feb b. b 9 t i t Piano duo are guest stars at Feb Febe 9 Community Concert Veri and Jamanis pianists duo-pianists will willbe willbe willbe be presented in concert to members of the Uintah Community Concert Association Thursday February 9 in inthe inthe inthe the Vernal Junior High School Auditorium according to Curtis May association president Curtain time is pm p.m. and admittance is by membership card only Frances Veri was born in Lancaster Pennsylvania and received her Bachelors Bachelor's and Masters Master's degrees from the Juilliard School of Music in New NewYork NewYork NewYork York City She studied piano ensemble with both Robert and Jane Carlson and theory with Vittorio Giannini In 1964 she was awarded first prize in the Ju Juilliard Concerto Comp Competition Com Com- p petition t t ri and nd performed d as lis sol st With the Juilliard Orchestra conducted by Jean Morel MICHAEL l JAMANIS NIS is a native of Concord New Hampshire and at the age of thirteen was the youngest winner ever to be awarded first prize in the annual statewide Whittemore Piano Competition conducted in that state He received his Bachelors Bachelor's and Masters Master's degrees from the Juilliard School where he also studied with Robert and Jane Carlson Veri and Jamanis met when they were scholarship students of the eminent teacher the late James Friskin at Juilliard School where they elected to form a two-piano two team the result was marriage and a professional piano duo-piano career Through competition in 1969 they were awarded the Walter Damrosch Memorial Scholarship to study in France with the internationally known pianist Robert Casadesus and his wife Gaby Critics who describe a Veri and Jamanis performance note note i how perfectly per per- m the theother theother theother other at the double keyboard Michael Jamanis a totally relaxed pianist seems to sit back and let the melody pour forth with an effortless grace Frances Veri whose presence at the keyboard is elegant almost loses herself in the music And if the listener closes his eyes he finds it impossible to tell which piano is producing the individual individual in in- part This is the secret of the Veri and Jamanis artistry |
