Pianist Thomas Uchtmann will perform a concert at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 21 at the Performing Arts Center in Waynesville to benefit the Haywood County Arts Council. A reception will be held after the concert.

Uchtmann will perform a range of works by Brahms, Beethoven, Schubert, Liszt and others.

He was born in Trenton, New Jersey and holds degrees from the Juilliard School of Music and the University of California at Santa Barbara. For over fifteen years he performed with Community Concerts Association and is a professor emeritus of Eastern New Mexico University, where he taught on the piano faculty for 25 years before retiring to Western North Carolina.

Tickets are $17.50 for adults, $8 for students 17 and younger.

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