School of Arts and Sciences Grad Student Jonathan Fisher will make his debut at Carnegie Hall in New York on March 10.
A pianist since the age of eight, Fisher will perform at 5:30 p.m. next Saturday in the facility's Weill Recital Hall - only two months before he expects to receive his doctorate in physics and astronomy from Penn.
Fisher said in a press release that these two somewhat divergent interests are both necessary in his life.
"These two things satisfy two different aspects of how I want to be," he said. "Music represents my human side, allowing me to delve into expression, while physics engages my physical and sensory side, stimulating my intellectual interest."
The opportunity to perform at Carnegie Hall was the result of his winning the competition "Artists International: New York Debut Award."
Fisher will perform pieces by Franz Liszt, Frederic Chopin and Robert Schumann, as well as contemporary pieces.
