Malone University - Faculty Artist Series

The Malone University School of Arts and Sciences – Department of Music will present the next offering in its faculty artist series on Monday, February 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the Stewart Room of the Randall Campus Center, located on the Canton campus. The recital, featuring Caroline Oltmanns, pianist, is free and open to the public. A program follows.

Caroline Oltmanns is associate professor of piano at Youngstown State University. She has performed extensively in Germany, France, Switzerland, South Africa, and the United States. Reviews rave about her “focused and heartfelt emotion” (L’Alsace, France) and her “mature creativity” (Fürther Zeitung, Germany). Her playing has been broadcast on radio and television stations in the US, South Africa, and Germany. In addition to a wide variety of piano solo and concerto repertoire, she frequently performs and premieres works by contemporary composers. Caroline Oltmanns is a Fulbright scholar and international Steinway artist. A native of Fürth, Germany, she earned her diploma at the Staatliche Musikhochschule Freiburg and her master's and doctoral degrees at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Her musical mentors were John Perry, Robert Levin, Vitaly Margulis, and Malcolm Frager.