The Ninth Annual International Keyboard Institute and Festival (July 15-29) will open with a concert on Sunday, July 15 at 8:00 p.m., featuring founder and director Jerome Rose performing the works of Beethoven, Schumann, Yehudi Wyner, and Chopin.

Among the highlights of the institute and festival are an array of concerts, lectures, and master classes given by this year’s guest faculty and artists, which includes Joaquin Achucarrro, Eteri Andjaparidze, Magdalena Baczewska, Alessio Bax, Michel Beroff, Stephen Beus, Alexander Braginsky, Andrew Brownell, Pedro Carbone, Sa Chen, David Dubal, Akiko Ebi, Alexander Gavrylyuk, Boris Giltburg, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Benjamin Hochman, Olga Kern, Alexander Korbrin, Denis Kozhukhin, Emanuel Drasovsky, Janina Kuzmas, Nina Lelchuk, Ivan Martin, Steven Mayer, Irina Morozova, Jean-Frederic Neuburger, Quynh Nguyen, Alberto Nose, Michael Oelbaum, Haesun Paik, Dmitry Rachmanov, Matti Raekallio, Jerome Rose, Victor Rosenbaum, Jose Ramos Santana, Vladimir Shakin, Yuan Sheng, Antti Siirala, Mykola Suk, Jeffrey Swann, Xiayin Wang, and Eduard Zilberkant.

Highlights will include recitals by Marc-Andre Hamelin, Alexander Kobrin, Ivan Martin, Eteri Andjaparidze, Matti Raekallio, Olga Kern, Michel Beroff, and Yuan Sheng; a lecture by David Dubal on Music, Madness, and Mortality; a concert and lecture by Jeffrey Swann
 entitled Currents of the 20th Century:  Neo-Romanticism & Neo-Classicism; and the Dorothy MacKenzie Prize Finals Concert.

For more information, call 212.580.0210 x4858, or email iki@newschool.edu. Visit www.mannes.edu/iki.org for links to all festival sponsors and artists, full artist bios, concert programs, and a complete schedule of events. All events will be held at Mannes College The New School for Music, 150 West 85th Street, and are open to the public. Costs: concert and evening events $20; daily master classes $15; or festival concert pass $250.