TINA GOODWIN
McPherson College
MCPHERSON, Kan. — The award-winning pianist Stephen Beus is the featured artist at the next Fern Lingenfelter Artist Series concert at McPherson College. In 2016, Beus gave the inaugural recital that launched the Lingenfelter Artist Series and returns to celebrate this milestone with a world-class performance on Sunday, November 3, at 4 p.m. in Mingenback Theatre. Admission to the concert is free.
His program will feature great piano works, including Franz Liszt’s “Notturno No. 3” and “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2.”
Beus is one of America’s leading concert pianists. In the space of four months, he won first prize in the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, first place in the Vendome Prize International Competition in Lisbon, and was awarded the Max I. Allen Fellowship of the American Pianists Association.
He made his Carnegie Hall debut with the Juilliard Orchestra and has performed as a solo artist across Europe and the U.S. Born on a farm in eastern Washington, Beus began playing the piano at an early age and made his orchestral debut at nine years old. As a youth, he won numerous national and international competitions. He holds degrees from Whitman College, the Juilliard School, and Stony Brook University. He currently teaches at Brigham Young University.
Admission to the Lingenfelter concert is free thanks to a generous commitment to McPherson College honoring Fern Lingenfelter. Lingenfelter, an alumna of McPherson College, taught piano in McPherson for many years to college students on campus and younger students at her studio downtown. Her son, Steve Clark, chairman of Clark Investment Group of Wichita, established the fund that supports two annual music performance events with particular emphasis on piano.