Dr. Robert D. Bean, (D.A.)
Department Chair and Professor
Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
2101 E. Coliseum Boulevard
Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499
Phone: 260-481-6714
Fax: 260-481-5422
Email: music@ipfw.edu
Office: Rhinehart Music Center
Room: 144
Hours: Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm
All concerts are in the Rhinehart Music Center unless otherwise noted.
- Regular Box Office Hours: Monday–Friday 12:30–6:30 p.m.
- Rhinehart Box Office opens one hour prior to the start of events in the Rhinehart Music Center.
- Summer Box Office Hours: Tuesday–Thursday 1-6 p.m.
- Phone: 260-481-6555
- TTD: 260-481-4105
- Purchase Tickets online: www.ipfw.edu/tickets
- boxoffice@ipfw.edu
- Admission for IPFW students with ID is free
- $7.00 Adults
- $6.00 Seniors (60 and older)
- $4.00 All other students
- Children ages 10 and younger are free
we invite you to…
Underwrite a Concert or Recital!
The IPFW Department of Music is pleased to present a broad array of concerts and recitals featuring superb faculty artists, exceptional guest artists, as well as our outstanding resident vocal and instrumental ensembles. We are always delighted to have you with us for our performances!
Private contributions play an important role in our mission to provide inspiring and entertaining musical events for the campus community, Fort Wayne, Northeast Indiana and for audiences outside our region.
If you would like to contribute to this effort, we invite you to consider underwriting a Department of Music concert or recital.
Your tax deductible gift of $250.00 or more allows you to choose the performance you wish to support. Underwriters will be acknowledged in the printed concert program and will receive two (2) Complimentary Tickets for each concert or recital for the remainder of the performance season.
If you would like to underwrite a Department of Music performance, please contact Dr. Robert Bean, Chair of the Department of Music, at 260-481-6712 or e-mail Dr. Bean at beanr@ipfw.edu
We hope you enjoy this year’s performances and look forward to having you with us often!
Three winners in each of the four age divisions of the 2013 IPFW Gene Marcus Piano Competition will perform and receive their awards.
A Distinguished Professor of Piano at Arizona State University and internationally renowned concert artist, Dr. Caio Pagano will perform Beethoven’s Sonata Op. 110, Chopin’s Scherzo No. 3 and Fantasy Op. 49, Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 11, and Gottschalk’s Fantasy.
This chamber music recital will feature Jason Simon, first-prize winner of the 2012 Indiana Music Teachers Association state collegiate Hoosier Auditions and a junior Piano Performance Major at IPFW. Jason performs together with Dr. Hamilton Tescarollo, Director of Keyboard Studies at IPFW, and string players Caleb Mossburg (violin), Rachel Mossburg (violin), Aaron Mossburg (Viola), and Brian Klickman (Cello). The program will include Mozart's Sonata for two pianos and Dvorak’s Quintet for piano and strings in A Major.
Pianist Elsie Johnson is an IPFW graduate (B.M. Piano Performance ’10) and will earn a double master’s degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from Butler University this summer. Her program will include Haydn’s Sonata in G Major, Hob. XVI:39; Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes; Liszt’s Les cloches de Genève, Pastorale, and Sonetto 104 del Petrarca; and Barber’s Sonata.