Cynthia Huard On Tuesday, February 7, at 12:15, Cynthia Huard of Middlebury College will perfom a free solo piano concert on the brand new Steinway grand in White Chapel. The piano was a gift from Norwich alumnus Donald L. Richmond, ‘52, who gave White Chapel its new pipe organ last year. Ms. Huard will be performing works of Chopin, Prokofiev, and Beethoven’s Op. 109 Piano Sonata. Admission is free and open to the public. This is the third concert of the 2011- 2012 series which has also featured jazz pianist and composer Bruce Sklar and chamber musicians John Dunlop and Elizabeth Reid. The concert series is sponsored by the Norwich Humanities Department and the Board of Fellows.

Cynthia Huard has appeared in recital as a pianist and harpsichordist throughout the United States and in Europe. As Artistic Director of the Rochester Chamber Music Society for the past 17 years she has presented and collaborated with instrumentalists from the Johannes, St. Lawrence, Brentano, Borromeo, and Lark Quartets, as well as principal players from many major orchestras in the United States. She has been heard on VPR, NPR and Public television and has recorded many types of music: contemporary, South American, collaborative work with piano, harpsichord and organ, and Baroque music. She has two advanced degrees from Indiana University, in Piano Performance and Early Music, 3 years of advanced grant-supported study in Austria.

Ms Huard teaches piano and chamber music at Middlebury College and has a thriving private studio in Middlebury.