Payne Family Concert to be held Oct. 10

The School of Music will present the biennial Payne Family Concert, featuring USC music professor Dorothy Payne and her siblings, Oct. 10. The concert, which is free, will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the school's Recital Hall.

Payne, and her siblings, Karl Payne and Rebecca Payne Shockley--all pianists--began performing in concert in 1993 to honor their late mother, Dorothy Stolzenbach Payne, an accomplished pianist and teacher who fostered their love and gift for piano performance and their father, Karl, a violinist, who also encouraged their musical careers.

The USC concert will feature a varied program for solo piano and two-piano works, including works by J.S. Bach, Edward German, Arthur Foote, George Gershwin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Percy Grainger, and Gioacchino Rossini.

Dorothy Payne teaches music theory at USC. She holds three degrees from the Eastman School of Music, where she taught for 13 years. She came to USC in 1994 and was the school's dean until 1998.

Karl Payne is an independent piano teacher and music director at Garden Park Unity Church in Cincinnati, Ohio. With music degrees from Indiana University, he has taught at the University of Colorado and Morehead State University.

Shockley is professor of piano pedagogy and coordinator of class piano at the University of Minnesota. Like her brother, she holds a music degree from Indiana University, as well as one from the University of Colorado.

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