Dena Kay Jones, a member of the music faculty at the University of Texas at El Paso, will perform a solo piano recital at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 7, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall in the Fine Arts Building. 

The program, “Images of Spain,” will feature masterpieces by some of Spain’s finest composers, including Joaquin Rodrigo, Enrique Granados, and Isaac Albéniz. The performance will include movements from Manuel de Falla’s ballet, “El Amor Brujo” (The Bewitched Love). The concert concludes with the famous “Danza ritual del Fuego” (Dance of Fire) by Artur Rubinstein.

Jones joined the music faculty of the University of Texas at El Paso in 2002, where she is the piano area coordinator and professor of applied piano and chamber music studies. She holds a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree of music in piano performance from the University of Illinois.

She has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States and in Mexico, Spain, Italy, and Canada. Her solo performances include recitals at El Centro Municipal de Las Artes in Juarez, Mexico, the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Concert Series in Canada, I Due Archi Music and Art Club in Vasto, Italy, and the For the Love of Music Series in Bisbee, Arizona.

Jones participated in the Festival Internacional de Música de Tecla Española in Spain in 2007 and 2013. Most recently, she participated as a piano solo and chamber musician in the 2016 Orfeo Music Festival in Italy.

Jones has focused her performances and research on the Spanish piano repertoire. She was awarded a grant from the Spanish Embassy in conjunction with U.S. universities for a Spanish music CD recording project. Picked up by the classical recording label Centaur Records, her debut album “Luces y Sombras (Lights and Shadows): Piano Works by Joaquín Rodrigo” was released in October 2007.

Admission to the concert is free. For more information, contact Linda Holzer at 501.569.3294 or lrholzer@ualr.edu.