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Featuring music from Western and Eastern Europe, Asia and the Americas, United States Army Band retired pianist Raffi Kasparian explores the influence much-loved composers Scott Joplin, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Debussy and more had on each other, transcending political and geographic boundaries.
Raffi Kasparian is a music major who has been playing piano since the age of 14. He has obtained degrees in music with a doctorate in piano performance from the University of Michigan. He has performed piano throughout the United States, Canada, and the Philippines; his repertoire includes classical piano composers such as Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Kabalevsky, along with his own original compositions and arrangements of well-loved popular and church music in the classical style.