Shirer is a NU associate professor of modern languages and literature. Kraus is a NU associate professor of Music Theory. Breckbill is a scholar of performance styles and reviewer for BBC Music Magazine. Two intermissions included. The School of Music presents as guest artists the Vienna International Piano Duo at 8 p.m. Sept. 25 in Kimball Hall.
Admission is free.
Krassimira Jordan and Wolfgang Watzinger will perform works by Mozart, Schubert, Shostakowitch, and Stravinsky. She has performed with much acclaim as recitalist and orchestra soloist in major cities in Europe, the Far East, Brazil and the United States. In recent years Jordan has been regularly invited by the governments of China, Korea and Taiwan to conduct masterclasses at the major universities in Beijing, Shanghai, Seoul and Taipei. Among her other recordings are piano concertos and solo pieces by Heitor Villa Lobos and other Brazilian composers, as well as various piano works by Slavic composers. Jordan was professor of piano at the world-renowned Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts from 1979 to 1989.