Contributed by Arts at Shandon Arts at Shandon presents Three Sopranos Friday evening at 7:30 pm November 30 at Shandon Presbyterian Church at the corner of Devine and Woodrow Streets. Popular solos, duets and trios of opera, musicals, and sacred selections will be sung by three well known Columbia area singers Angela Blalock (S.C. State University), Serena Hill (Columbia College), and Kerri Roberts (USC). Attendance is free and open to the public with donations greatly appreciated. Reception follows. 771-4408 ext. 27. The Sundays at Lowman Piano Series continues this month with a performance on Sunday, November 18 at 3:30 pm in the New Life Chapel featuring Scott Price.

Dr. Price currently serves as professor of piano and piano pedagogy at the University of South Carolina School of Music. A graduate of the University of Oklahoma, The Cleveland Institute of Music, and Bowling Green State University, he received the Best of BGSU Outstanding Graduate award from Bowling Green State University in Ohio in 2002 and was invited back to the University of Oklahoma as a Distinguished Guest Alumnus in March of 2005 to perform, lecture, and present a piano master class. Dr. Price's recent engagements have included performances and clinics at the national conventions of the Music Teachers National Association, the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy, and solo recitals throughout the U.S.

His special teaching interests include working with students with disabilities and very young children, as well as teaching keyboard improvisation to piano students of all skill levels. His work with disabled students has been featured locally on WIS and WLTX, and in The State newspaper and the Columbia Metropolitan Magazine .

. Dr. Price serves as chair of the Committee on Special Needs Students for the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy, and he served on the planning committee of the 2006 National Group Piano/Piano Pedagogy Forum National Convention. One of his autistic students, Brittany Maier, was recently featured on Dateline NBC and CNN.

Dr. Price has recorded 28 compact discs of educational piano music for Alfred Publishing Company and has published educational compositions with Alfred Publishing Company and the FJH Music Company.

Sundays at Lowman piano series concludes Sunday, January 27, 2008, with a recital by Japanese pianist Junchiro Harada. Each performance is followed by a reception in the Hoefler Gallery where the audience is invited to visit the artist. All recitals are free and open to the public. For more information please call 732-8800.