Pianists Naoki Hakutani and Jaeyeon Park-Hakutani will perform a four-hands recital entitled “World Journey by Piano Four-Hands” on Thursday, July 26, at 6:30 p.m. at the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall in the Fine Arts Building on the campus of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.  

Piano four hands is a type of piano duet in which two people play on a single piano.

The couple will play works by Mozart (arrangement from Cosi fan tutte), Dvorak (Slavonic Dances), Moszkowski (From Foreign Lands), and Khatchaturian (arrangement of Sabre Dance).

Dr. Naoki Hakutani is associate professor of piano at UA at Little Rock and co-director of the UA Little Rock Piano and Strings Festival. He holds degrees in piano performance from Northwestern University, Indiana University at Bloomington, and the University of Texas at Austin and has conducted master classes throughout the United States, Mexico and Asia.

Dr. Park-Hakutani is an associate Professor of Piano at Chosun University where she teaches piano, chamber music, piano literature and music history and serves as chair of the Music Department. She graduated with highest honors from Seoul National University and holds an MM and DMA from the Butler School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin.

The music program will last approximately 35 to 40 minutes. Admission is free.