Cecile Licad in concert, Tarleton State University Piano Festival

World-renowned pianist Cecile Licad will appear in a solo performance at Tarleton State University as part of the 10^th annual Piano Festival Feb. 21. Licad has been described as “a pianist’s pianist” by The New Yorker. Her talent was honed at the Curtis Institute of Music by great performers such as Rudolf Serkin, Seymour Lipkin and Mieczyslaw Horszowski.
 
Licad’s large repertoire as an orchestral soloist spans the classical works of Mozart and Beethoven, the Romantic literature of Brahms, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Schumann and Rachmaninoff, and on to the 20th century compositions of Debussy, Ravel, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Bartok. She has appeared with major symphonies in the United States, Europe and Asia, and has performed under the baton of Zubin Mehta, Michael Tilson-Thomas and Pinchas Zukerman, among others.