Bradley Moore, assistant conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in New York who received his early musical training at UALR’s Community School of the Arts, will present a piano recital Feb. 13 at the site of that early training.

He will present a program of Mozart, Hindemith, and Schumann at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13, at the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall in UALR’s Fine Arts Building.

A reception following the performance will be held adjacent to the concert hall. The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call 501.569.3296.

A graduate of Hall High School, Moore, 36, holds degrees from the University of Maryland and Yale University. The UALR concert is part of his three capstone public performances in the U.S. required to complete his Ph.D. program at Yale.

“He has chosen UALR for one of these performances to bring his music full circle – back to the city he called home and to the UALR Community School of the Arts where he studied for so many years and established his life’s direction,” said Leslie Mangiamele, the director of UALR’s Community School of the Arts. The unique program offers quality non-credit instruction in the arts to students of all ages without audition or formal application.

“Brad began his piano studies at the age of 5 and came to the UALR Community School of the Arts to study when he was 8,” Mangiamele said. “He studied piano with us, taking piano with the late Margaret Warmack and music theory with Trudy Kincade, until he graduated high school and went off to college.”

Moore is the son of Erin and Hart Moore of Little Rock. His mother is a Little Rock public school teacher and his father, a UALR graduate, is well known in the area as an accomplished tenor and choir director.

Established in 1978, UALR’s Community School for the Arts is the only collegiate division of its kind in the area. The school offers children and adults the unique advantage of interacting with college faculty members and professional artists who are not only teachers, but artists working in their field. Operating through the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, the Community School presently has an enrollment of more than 1,000 students.

Instruction is available in acting and drama, KinderArt, drawing, painting, pottery, photography, classical and pop/rock/jazz guitar, piano, Kindermusik, flute, violin, viola, cello, bass, saxophone, clarinet, trumpet, voice, drums, percussion, classical ballet, Chinese language, and more.

For more information about the Community School for the Arts, contact Mangiamele at 501.569.8771.