Nielson and Young Duo-Piano Virtuosos

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October 4, 2008

Release Date:  August 28, 2008
 
Nielson & Young in Concert October 4, 2008 7:30 p.m. Malone College* Johnson Center for Worship and the Fine Arts 2600 Cleveland Avenue N.W., Canton, OH 44709 Tickets $10   Special group rate – For every 10 tickets purchased, receive an 11th ticket free!   
After more than three decades of musical collaboration that continues to take them around the world, duo-pianists Stephen Nielson and Ovid Young are veterans of more than 3,500 concerts in a fascinating array of venues. Those performance sites have ranged from Copenhagen, Denmark's Tivoli Concert Hall; Toronto, Canada's Roy Thompson Hall; Madras, India's Academy of Music; Moscow, Russia's Kremlin and Tchaikovsky Hall; Oberammergau, Germany's Passionspiel Theatre; Bern, Switzerland's Konzerthaus; and Dallas, Texas' Meyerson Symphony Center. Nielson & Young have been hosted for concerts at many hundreds of churches and universities, appearing by themselves or with symphony orchestras from coast to coast in the United States and abroad.
 
A composer of orchestral soundtracks for several feature length films, Ovid Young is also a widely published creator of choral music for church choirs.  He is remembered by many for his 20 years of touring and recording as the principal pianist/arranger/conductor for the renowned singing duo of Robert Hale and Dean Wilder.  Nielson & Young are currently performing a set of Broadway/romantic hits from the stage and movies.  Their program at Malone promises to “scratch every itch musically.”
 
On the artistic staff of the International Church Music Festival since 1985, Ovid and Stephen have been active church music leaders in addition to having held appointments as university professors in California, Illinois, Texas and Indiana. Individually and jointly, they are widely-published composers of music for solo and multiple keyboards, choir and orchestra. Nielson & Young's extensive discography includes many recordings from the classical repertoire as well as from the ever-expanding output of their signature hymn-tune arrangements, many of which settings are for two pianos and orchestra.
 
  
Nielson & Young are Steinway artists.
  ·        This concert is being presented as part of the community celebration of Malone College becoming Malone University.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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