With pianist Edmund Arkus, a piano concert demonstrating how the same musical forms have been used effectively in very different musical styles.

Edmund Arkus has performed for many years in the United States, Japan and England to high critical acclaim. He has been presented in solo recitals, as soloist with orchestras, and he has collaborated in many chamber music concerts and sonata recitals. Mr. Arkus performed on radio in New York on WNYC, WFUV, WQXR, as well as live performances over National Public Radio from Washington DC, the BBC radio in England, and NHK-TV in Japan. He has collaborated regularly with Keisuke Wakao, Assistant Principal Oboist of the Boston Symphony, and with other members of the Boston Symphony, and with members of the NHK Orchestra (Tokyo), Berlin Philharmonic and Orchestre de Paris. Edmund Arkus first studied the piano with his mother, Helena Arkus. He then worked with pianist Leopold Mittman. Later, Mr. Arkus entered The Juilliard School in New York, where he studied with the distinguished teacher Rosina Lhévinne, and received both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in music. Mr. Arkus then completed his piano studies with Wolfgang Rosé, nephew of Gustav Mahler. Edmund Arkus teaches privately and at the Third Street Music School Settlement in Manhattan. He has presented numerous master classes in New York, and in Ogaki, Tokyo and Nagoya, Japan.