UNIVERSITY MUSIC PROFESSOR INVITED TO STEINWAY FESTIVAL

James Sifferman has been invited to perform at the Horowitz Steinway Festival at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, on Nov. 17.

Sifferman is an associate professor of music at Southeast Missouri State University.

Sifferman will be playing the Steinway piano presented to Vladimir Horowitz in 1938. Horowitz toured with the piano and played it throughout his career.

He patted it before his last concert in Moscow.

The Horowitz Steinway is currently being toured for concert performances throughout the United States.

Sifferman will play the "Piano Sonata" by Samuel Barber. The sonata was composed for Horowitz. He performed its world premier at Carnegie Hall in 1950.

Sifferman is a graduate of the Julliard School in New York City. He gave a solo recital at Carnegie Hall in 1988, performed at St. Louis' Sheldon Concert Hall in 1990, did a concert tour of Japan last year and is preparing a European concert tour in 1993.

He has produced a compact disc titled "Sifferman Live Vol. 1, Piano Music of Franz Liszt," which is available at the Southeast Missouri State University campus book store.