Eleven top area perform-
ers are tuning up for the third High
Plains Piano Extravaganza. The free
concert begins at 3 p.m. July 27 in the
Sybil B. Harrington Fine Arts Complex
Recital Hall on WT’s Canyon campus.
Several renowned musicians will join
forces on one or more pianos to perform
works from the likes of Frances Poulenc,
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Scott Joplin,
Thomas H. Kerr Jr., Carlos Guastavino,
Ernesto Lecuona and Richard Rodney
Bennet.
In addition, a silent auction will raise
funds for the Amarillo Music Teachers
Association teacher enrichment fund,
which helps pay for Music Teachers Na-
tional Association membership for new
Plano Teachers.
Then performers, who’ll play in vari-
ous configurations, at the Extravaganza
will include Choong-ha Nam, professor
in the School of Music in WT’s Sybil B.
Harrington College of Fine Arts and Hu-
manities; Dr. Sarah Rushing, WT assis-
tant professor of music; Stephen Simp-
son, WT administrative associate and
piano teacher; and Denise Parr-Scanlin,
retired WT professor of music. Perform-
ers also will include Amarillo Opera pia-
nist Dr. Sunyong Hwang; First Baptist
Church of Amarillo organist Dr. Sungh-
wan Kim; and area piano teachers Debra
Wilcox, Adrianne Sage, Eileen Moss,
Andreanna Hawbaker and Julia O’Dell.