Friday, November 4, 2022 @ 7:30pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
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Free (Online: Free | In person: $20 general, $15 senior/military/UPS community; UPS/K12 students free)

The School of Music is delighted to welcome Ronaldo Rolim, Puget Sound’s new assistant professor of piano, presenting "Brazilian Kaleidoscope", a celebration of the many facets and influences of the music of Brazil as the country celebrates the 200th anniversary of its independence and the 100th anniversary of its Modernist movement.

All are invited to a reception following the program hosted by the SAI international music fraternity.

Tickets: $20, general; $15 sr. citizen; military, Puget Sound faculty, staff and Community Music participants.

Admission is free for current Puget Sound and K-12 students. Please obtain a complimentary ticket and present your student ID at the door.

COVID-19 Protocols: All in-person event attendees must be vaccinated and are required to follow safety protocols announced by the event sponsor, such as masking and registration or ticketing requirements. We look forward to welcoming all guests, including children and other unvaccinated individuals, back to campus soon. For more information, visit pugetsound.edu/coronavirus.

About University of Puget Sound Jacobsen Series

Named in honor of Leonard Jacobsen, former chair of the piano department at Puget Sound, the Jacobsen Professional Artist Series was established in 1984 and features School of Music faculty and their guests. Ticket sales support the Jacobsen Series Scholarship Fund, which awards annual music scholarships to an outstanding member of Sigma Alpha Iota, international music fraternity.

https://www.pugetsound.edu/events/lecture-performance-series/jacobsen-concert-series

About Ronaldo Rolim, piano

With "a special ability to present touching interpretations" (El Norte), Brazilian pianist Ronaldo Rolim is a prominent figure among an emerging generation of outstanding musicians. Acclaimed for his "consummate elegance" (New York Concert Review) and "mastery of phrasing, agogic accents, and dynamics" (Oberbaselbieter Zeitung), he has performed extensively over four continents, in such venues such as Carnegie Hall, Zurich's Tonhalle, London's Wigmore Hall, the Great Hall of the Liszt Academy in Budapest, and Beijing's National Centre for the Performing Arts. He is a Winner of the 2017 Astral National Auditions and has captured top prizes at numerous prestigious international competitions, including the Géza Anda, James Mottram, Bösendorfer, San Marino, Lyon, and Teresa Carreño competitions. In 2019, Mr. Rolim released his latest album on Odradek Records, Szymanowski – The Wartime Triptychs, devoted to the programmatic works the Polish composer wrote during World War I. Diapason magazine considers Mr. Rolim "an ideal guide to [Szymanowski’s] magic world”, whereas Classica magazine hails his “clear but thunderous pianism." The album's topic was extensively discussed in Mr. Rolim's doctoral thesis, completed in 2016 at Yale University.

https://www.ronaldorolim.com/