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Pianists scheduled to perform next in the UAB Piano Series 2009-10 season are Marina Lomazov, Jan. 10, 2010, and Shai Wosner, March 21, 2010.

Season tickets for all three performances are $30. Tickets to each performance are $15 for the general public and $5 for UAB students and employees with valid ID. To purchase UAB Piano Series performance tickets, call 205-975-2787. Visit the UAB Department of Music online at www.music.uab.edu.

As first-prize winner of the 2005 Cleveland International Piano Competition and a finalist in the 12th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2005, Chinese pianist Chu Fang Huang has made concert appearances throughout the United States. She made her Lincoln Center debut at Alice Tully Hall in November 2005 and won the 2006 Young Concert Artists International Auditions.

Huang began studying the piano at age 7 and received a full scholarship to the Shenyang Music Conservatory's pre-college division at age 12. She made her U.S. recital debut at 15 in the La Jolla Music Society's Prodigy Series. She went on to receive her bachelor of music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Claude Frank, and her master of music degree from The Juilliard School, as a student of Robert McDonald. She now is pursuing postgraduate studies at Juilliard.

Huang's UAB Piano Series performance will feature an all-Chopin program, including Four Ballades, Second Sonata op. 35 ("Funeral March") and Polonaise op. 44.

About the UAB Department of Music

UAB is the first all-Steinway piano school in Alabama. The UAB Department of Music presents more than 150 concerts, recitals, master classes and lectures each year, many of them free, for more than 400,000 people throughout the region. The department features 17 ensembles. The UAB Piano Series brings the world's finest pianists to Birmingham with a series of three performances each year.