New specialty Steinway piano enhances MSU music department

Contact: Lydia Palmer

STARKVILLE, Miss.—A brand new high-performance piano in Mississippi State’s Division of Music is enhancing this system with state-of-the-art options as a part of the college’s All-Steinway Initiative.

Professor of Music Rosângela Sebba, a Steinway Artist and keyboard coordinator within the MSU School of Schooling, mentioned she is “delighted” in regards to the addition of the Steinway SPIRIO|r.

Sebba mentioned Mississippi State at present is the one faculty within the Southeastern Convention in possession of any such piano. She shared her pleasure for MSU college students to be profiting from this expertise and making ready to compete at larger ranges, whereas the division strengthens core expertise for each artists and educators.

The college has an All-Steinway Faculty marketing campaign underway in an effort to turn out to be considered one of solely a handful of music departments on the earth to earn such an acclaimed distinction.

In keeping with Steinway, the SPIRIO|r is the perfect excessive decision participant piano with stay efficiency recording and playback capabilities. Customers will discover new instruments to specific their artwork and entry previous performances—even from the world’s biggest pianists in historical past.

Bob and Kathy Olsen, main MSU Steinway Initiative donors, not too long ago accompanied Sebba to the New York Steinway piano manufacturing facility to pick out a Steinway live performance D grand piano for the Lecture-Recital Corridor within the college’s new Music Constructing. Throughout the choice, the Steinway consultant demonstrated the SPIRIO|r, sparking Bob Olsen’s curiosity. In keeping with Sebba, he instantly noticed the probabilities and advantages that the instrument might carry to MSU’s music division.

Sebba expressed her “immense gratitude” for the Olsens’ generosity and steady help. She is also conscious of the influence the present Steinways within the division have dropped at her college students and the infinite prospects they should make music with musicians around the globe.

“I can sit down with college students and report their items,” Sebba mentioned. “As soon as I save the recording, we are able to take heed to their efficiency and edit their errors, exhibiting them what went flawed. My college students can see their errors being repaired in actual time. They will additionally pay attention and watch performers and composers by the movies and checklist of recordings out there by the iPad.”

For extra info on MSU’s Division of Music, go to www.music.msstate.edu.

MSU is Mississippi’s main college, out there on-line at www.msstate.edu.