Internationally acclaimed pianist Barbara Nissman will present a master class and recital this weekend at West Virginia Universitys College of Creative Arts.

Both events, which are free and open to the public, will be in the Bloch Learning and Performance Hall (Room 200A) at the Creative Arts Center on the Evansdale Campus.

The master class will be from 2-4 p.m. Saturday (Feb. 2), and the recital will begin at 3 p.m. Sunday (Feb. 3).

Music will includeToccata, Adagio and Fugue in C Majorby Johann Sebastian Bach, Ferruccio Busoni;Nocturne for Piano (Homage to John Field)by Samuel Barber; Ludwig van BeethovensSonata, Op. 53(Waldstein);Sonata No. 3, Op. 55(dedicated to Nissman) by Alberto Ginastera;Three Preludes and Three Etudes-Tableauxby Sergei Rachmaninoff; andMephisto Waltzby Franz Liszt.

A performer, writer, lecturer and frequent guest artist and teacher, Nissman has toured and given master classes throughout the United States, Europe, Far East, New Zealand, Russia and South America. She is well known for her definitive recordings of the complete piano music (solo and chamber) of Ginastera and the complete piano sonatas of Sergei Prokofiev.

Nissman has performed with the leading orchestras of Europe and America, including the London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic and the Munich Philharmonic, among many others.

A noted Prokofiev scholar, she was invited by the former Soviet Union to travel to Moscow and collaborate with leading Soviet musicians on a detailed study of the Prokofiev manuscripts housed in the Central State Archives.

Nissman recently appeared on stage with Don Henley and Billy Joel, performing on the Walden Steinway in a gala fundraiser for the Walden Ponds project, at Lincoln Center. She was also one of the participants with Leonard Slatkin at the Kennedy Centers 25th Anniversary Gala Concert, which was broadcast on PBS .

In addition, Nissman has initiated a music-lecture series,Barbara&Friends,based on the series she filmed for BBC Television. Her opening program of the series features the music ofFranz Liszt, The Elvis Presley of the Keyboard.In collaboration with the Greenbrier Valley Theater in Lewisburg, where she currently lives, she is now adapting this program as an educational television series for children.