The Lied Center for Performing Arts, Lied Center Piano Circle and Glenn Korff School of Music will host the fourth annual Lied Center Piano Academy July 11-15.

The academy is designed for students entering grades 9 through their first year of college. The artistic director is Paul Barnes, the Marguerite Scribante Professor of Piano in the Glenn Korff School of Music.

“I’m especially excited about the 2022 Lied Center Piano Academy as I’m serving in my second year as artistic director,” Barnes said. “We will be welcoming 16 academy fellows to our beautiful campus.”

Glenn Korff School of Music alumna Madeline Rogers (D.M.A. 2021) will serve as a teaching artist and will perform a solo recital on Thursday, July 14 at 7 p.m. in Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. The recital is free and open to the public.

Originally from Eldorado, IL, Madeline Rogers earned a Masters in Music from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University as a student of André Watts, and a Doctorate in Musical Arts from the University of Nebraska with Paul Barnes. Rogers is an accomplished solo and collaborative performer in the US and abroad. She is frequently requested to collaborate with other faculty and guest artists, most recently performing with vocalist Suna Gunther in a recital featuring all of UNL’s vocal faculty. In 2019, Rogers collaborated with faculty from various campuses across Nebraska to present a program of music inspired by Shakespeare at Churchill College in Cambridge, UK. Other international performances include collaboration with Maestro Andrea Grassi in 2017, in lectures pertaining to his Henle Urtext edition of the clarinet music of Brahms. Rogers is an experienced instructor, having taught in both private studio and class piano settings since 2010. While pursuing her doctorate at UNL she served as studio assistant to Paul Barnes, teaching collegiate pianists and instructing applied lessons and piano literature classes. She currently serves as an Artist-Faculty member at the Omaha Conservatory of Music.