Haskell Small's "Three Etudes in Sound" for piano solo will be given their New York Premiere by pianist Soheil Nasseri on Tuesday, February 11 at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, 154 W. 57th St., New York.

"Three Etudes in Sound" was written in 1993 and was given it's World Premiere by the composer at the Austrian Embassy in Washington DC on March of that year.

Soheil Nasseri will also perform the World Premiere of Richard Danielpour's "Elegy" along with masterworks by Schumann and Beethoven.

As a composer, Haskell Small has received commissions from such organizations as the Washington Performing Arts Society, the Georgetown Symphony and Paul Hill Chorale. He was the 1999 winner of the Marin Ballet Dance Score Competition. He is currently composer in residence with Virginia's Mount Vernon Symphony. Mr. Small, who studied piano with Leon Fleisher and William Masselos, is on the faculty of the Washington Conservatory. He recently presented the London and Paris premieres of his "Symphony for Solo Piano". Read more about him at his website - http://www.jamesarts.com/h-small/.

Since October of 2001, Soheil Nasseri has played six recitals in New York at Weill Recital Hall and by the end of March 2003 he will have played eight, all without repeating a single piece. He is passionately committed to promoting the new music of young classical composers and this season he is premiering more new works in New York than any other classical soloist. You can find much more information about him at http://www.soheilnasseri.com.

Tickets for the February 11 concert are $33 and can be ordered through CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800, online at http://www.carnegiehall.org or at the Carnegie Hall Box Office, located at the corner of 57th Street and 7th Avenue.

For more information about "Three Etudes in Sound" or Haskell Small, please contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net.

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