On Sunday, December 9 at 3:00, The Bennington Museum will welcome back Jeni Slotchiver, renowned pianist and champion of 20th Century composers.  This afternoon concert will be a preview of the program scheduled for The National Gallery of Art in Washington DC in January and will feature beautiful and rarely heard work representative of Native American, African-American, Latin-American and Creole-American composers.  Admission to the concert is $4 for members of the museum and $8 for non-members.  The concert fee also includes admission to the museum galleries.

Jeni Slotchiver is dedicated to the presentation of new and rarely heard music.  Her North American piano repertoire includes exquisite compositions of Native American melodies and African-American spirituals, and encompasses composers such as Nathaniel Dett, Louis Gottschalk, and the avant-garde Frederic Rzewski.  Her expansive repertoire also incudes the work of most South American compsers, among them: Alberto Ginastera, Carmargo Guarnieri, Francisco Mignone, and Heitor Villa-Lobos.

Highlights of Ms. Slotchiver's recent appearances include The Americas Society in New York City, and The Richard Nixon Presidential Library in California. Her January performance at The National Gallery of Art in Washington DC will be broadcast nationwide on National Public Radio's Performance Today.  She is a regular guest recitalist at Dartmouth College, City Universities of New York, Florida International University, and New Jersey City University.  This will be Ms. Slotchiver's second performance at The Bennington Museum.

Ms. Slotchiver resides in New York City and is visiting artist-faculty at Tennessee State University.  This year, in addition to her touring schedule, she will be working on the release of several new CDs including Busoni The Visionary Volume III.  She is also workong on a collection of essays on the life and work of Ferruccio Busoni.