World of Piano-Jonathan Biss will begin at 3 p.m. in Armstrong Hall, Armstrong Concert Hall.  “A young virtuoso and poetic pianist of the first order,” (Chicago Sun Times) Jonathan Biss is an American artist with an intensely deep curiosity for musical performance and composition. He is an acclaimed Beethoven interpreter who is currently immersed in a monumental nine-year, nine-disc recording cycle of Beethoven’s complete piano sonatas. Biss has been recognized with numerous honors, including the Leonard Bernstein Award presented at the 2005 Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Wolf Trap’s Shouse Debut Artist Award, the Andrew Wolf Memorial Chamber Music Award, Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Award, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, the 2003 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award and the 2002 Gilmore Young Artist Award.

Tickets are $25 for adults, $23 for senior citizens and $12 for non-SU students. Purchase tickets at the Ohrstrom-Bryant Theatre box office; call 540/665-4569 or go to www.conservatoryperforms.org. The box office is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and two hours before this concert at the performance venue. All Shenandoah employees can pick up free tickets for performances at any time. Free “rush” tickets are available to SU students two hours prior to this performance.