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Guest-Faculty Recital

Nancy Zeltman, marimba
Jean Carlo Ureña González, percussion

Wednesday, Jan. 10 | 8-9:30 p.m.
Memorial Chapel

Nancy Zeltsman is a professor at joint institutions Berklee College of Music and Boston Conservatory at Berklee. She has taught marimba at both schools since 1993 in positions that were created for her. Since 2013, she has been regular guest professor of marimba at Conservatorium van Amsterdam; since 2021, a Guest Artist teaching two weeks per year at University of Michigan; and from fall 2023, a Visiting Lecturer at Boston University School of Music.

Nancy first came to prominence as the marimbist of the duo Marimolin. She has presented master classes at institutions across the United States and Europe, and in Japan, China, Mexico and Brazil – including The Juilliard School, Curtis Institute of Music, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Lawrence Conservatory of Music (Appleton, WI), Cleveland Institute of Music, Royal College of Music (London), Académie supérieure de musique (Strasbourg, France), and Escola Superior de Música (Lisbon, Portugal). She has performed or presented at 12 Percussive Arts Society International Conventions and at PAS chapter events in 17 states and Stockholm, Sweden. Performance venues have included the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, Ravinia Festival, subscription concerts with the San Francisco Symphony, Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall and Merkin Concert Hall (New York), Shenzhen Concert Hall (China), and Harmony Hall (Fukui, Japan).

This event is free and open to the public.