No�l Lee To Perform At Institute For Advanced Study

Pianist and composer No�l Lee will perform at the Institute for Advanced Study on December 12 and 14 at 8:00 p.m. and December 16 at 4:00 p.m. The concerts will take place in Wolfensohn Hall on the Institute campus.

Lee will offer a program of solo piano works, "most of which were completed within the last century," according to composer Jon Magnussen, the Institute's Artist-in-Residence, who oversees the 2001-2002 concert program. Schubert's unfinished Sonata in f minor will be performed in Lee's own completed version (he completed the unfinished first movement), along with Debussy's Masques, D'un cahier d'esquisses and L'isle joyeuse; Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales; Dutilleux's Le jeu des contraires; Lee's own Distances; and Toccare! a recent work by Magnussen.

Lee received his early musical education in Lafayette, Ind. After studying at Harvard University with Walter Piston, Irving Fine, and Tillman Merritt—an enterprise interrupted by 38 months of military service during World War II—and at the New England Conservatory of Music, he went to Paris to study under Nadia Boulanager.

His career as a concert pianist has taken him on tour on six continents. In Europe he has recorded 185 LPs and CDs, of which 13 have received France's Grand Prix du Disque. This recorded repertory includes the first complete recording of all the Schubert piano sonatas, the entire piano literature of Debussy and Ravel, and numerous works of 20^th-century composers such as Bart�k, Stravinsky, and Aaron Copland.

As a composer, Lee has been honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and won the Boulanger Composition Prize. He has received commissions from the French Cultural Affairs Ministry and French National Radio.

In the United States, Lee has been visiting professor at Brandeis and Cornell universities and at Dartmouth College. In Europe, he is frequently called upon to give workshops in piano, in chamber music, and in vocal literature, and he collaborates with publishing houses for new editions of French piano, four-hand, and two-piano music.

The concerts are part of the Institute for Advanced Study's Artist-in-Residence Program. Tickets are free and available to the public. For ticket information call 609-734-8228 or see www.admin.ias.edu/air.