Distinguished Alumna Carolyn True (BM 1982) returns to UCM for a piano concert at 7pm in Hart Recital Hall. Admission is free and the public is invited to attend.

Daughter of UCM Emeritus professor Dr. Wesley True, Carolyn is carrying on the family tradition and enjoys an international reputation as performer and master teacher. In 2000, Carolyn True was recognized as the Texas Music Teachers Association’s Collegiate Teacher of the Year and in 2010 was awarded the highest honor to a faculty member at Trinity University; the Dr. and Mrs. Z.T. Scott Faculty Fellowship award. She is in demand as an adjudicator/clinician, working with local, state, national, and international contests, including chairing the jury of the Gina Bachauer International Young Artists Piano Competition.

Dr. True holds the prestigious Performer’s Certificate and the D.M.A. degree from the Eastman School of Music, an M.M. from the University of Maryland-College Park, and the B.M. from the University of Central Missouri (where in 2001, she was chosen as the Pi Kappa Lambda Distinguished Music Alumna) and was a prize-winner in national and international competitions. She was also the recipient of a Rotary Foundation Scholarship for study at the Conservatoire National de la Musique in Lyon, France. Her teachers have included three Trues of distinction (Marilyn: pre-college, Wesley: undergraduate, Nelita: graduate studies), Thomas Schumacher, Jean Barr, and Eric Heidsieck.

For more information:
Contact Mia Hynes at hynes@ucmo.edu