Snead State Community College will host a Piano Master Class and Recital on Saturday, Feb. 8, with the University of Alabama’s Assistant Professor of Piano Dr. Hannah Roberts.

The Piano Master Class with Dr. Roberts will begin at 1 p.m., and the piano recital featuring Dr. Roberts will be at 5 p.m. Both will take place in Fielder Auditorium, located in the Story Administration Building at 220 North Walnut Street, Boaz. Admission is free.

Dr. Roberts, NCTM, teaches piano and piano pedagogy at UA. Prior to that, she taught group and applied piano at the University of Oklahoma as a graduate teaching assistant. She also formerly taught with the piano faculty of music academies in Alabama and Oklahoma.

She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Oklahoma, where she studied piano with Jeongwon Ham and piano pedagogy with Barbara Fast and Jane Magrath. She holds a Master of Music degree in Piano Performance from the University of South Alabama, where she studied with Robert Holm. She has performed in Master Classes for artist-teachers including Alan Chow, Angela Cheng, Logan Skelton, Douglas Humpherys, Kenneth Drake, Ralf Heiber, Michael Kannen, and Axel Lenarduzzi.

Dr. Roberts is an active member of MTNA and the College Music Society and currently serves on the board of the Alabama Music Teachers Association. She maintains an active performing schedule as a solo and collaborative artist with much of her current work focused on promoting the music of forgotten female composers.

For more information about the Master Class or Recital or about Snead State’s Music Program, contact Dr. Kathleen Ruhleder at kathleen.ruhleder@snead.edu.