JACKSONVILLE -- October 15, 2002 -- Dr. Wendy Channel will present a piano recital beginning at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 29 at the Mason Hall Performance Center at Jacksonville State University.

Dr. Channel is a member of the piano and accompanying faculty at JSU. A native of West Virginia, Dr. Channel received her undergraduate education at Florida Atlantic University where she was a University Scholar as well as recipient of the Esther Boyer Griswold Performing Arts Scholarship. She received her master's degree and doctorate from the University of South Carolina. Her teachers have included Heather Coltman, Judith Burganger, Charles Fugo and John Kenneth Adams.

Dr. Channel has performed throughout the southeast as a piano soloist and collaborative musician. She has wide experience as an accompanist and has served as a vocal coach for numerous singers in the United States and Italy.

Dr. Channel's program will include Rondo, K. 511, by W. A. Mozart, Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera by Luigi Dallapiccola and Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel by Johannes Brahms.

This concert is presented by the JSU Department of Music and is free. The public is invited. For more information call the music department at 782-5559.