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Piano Series
The Piano Series at Sacramento State presents up to four Artist Recitals and multiple masterclasses each year, featuring a wide variety of professional performers from around the country.
Admission to masterclasses is free. Artist concerts are held at 7:00 p.m. in the Capistrano Concert Hall; Recital admission is $20 general, $15 senior, and $10 student.
Guest Artist: Fantee Jones
Saturday, October 24, 2026 - 7pm
Taiwanese-American pianist Fantee Jones of Roseville, California gave her first solo recital at the age of seven and made her concerto debut performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto in A Major, K. 488 at age ten. She was a semi-finalist at the 1st Ljubljana Festival International Piano Competition (2023) in Slovenia, 1st prize winner and awarded the “Best Execution of a Classical Piece” in the Città di San Donà di Piave International Piano Competition (2022), a semi-finalist at the 2020 National Chopin Piano Competition, winner of the 2019 Eastman School Concerto Competition, finalist at the 2018 Serge and Olga Koussevitzky Young Artist Awards, and a prizewinner at the 2018 Los Angeles International Piano Competition.
Miss Jones made her first Carnegie Weill Hall appearance in May 2005 and has also performed at Benaroya Hall and Lied Center of Kansas in the United States, National Recital Hall in Taiwan, Sendai City Cultural Center in Japan, Seoul Arts Center in South Korea, Temppeliaukion Kirkko “Rock Church” in Finland and Verbrugghen Hall in Australia, as well as on Cunard and Princess Cruise Lines.
Guest Artist: Avery Gagliano
Saturday, March 6, 2027 - 7pm
Rising Artist and graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, Avery Gagliano performs. Celebrated as “a distinctive young talent” (International Piano), Avery is recognized for interpretations with great emotional depth and a “distinctly narrative approach” (Miami International Piano Festival). Having first risen to international acclaim as the winner of the first prize and best concerto prize at the 2020 National Chopin Piano Competition, she has established herself as an artist to watch.
Avery’s debut album, Reflections (Steinway & Sons, 2021), features repertoire at the heart of her music making, including works by Chopin, Haydn, Schumann, and Adès. Her performances have been broadcast across the United States and Europe on leading radio programs such as Deutschlandfunk and SWR in Germany, Chicago’s WFMT, Philadelphia’s WRTI, NPR’s From The Top, and the celebrated American Public Media show Performance Today, where she was a 2024 Young Artist in Residence.
Parking and Driving Directions
Sac State uses virtual parking permits through a Sac State parking account. Parking is available for $5 for each concert.
- If you don't have an account, click here to create a guest account. Once you finish, click the Purchase Parking link again and use the Guest Login
- If you have an account already but forgot your password, click here to reset your password.
Use the Purchase Parking link below, making sure to select the correct valid date ("effective" and "expiration" dates should be th same), to activate your visitor permit. Permits are valid for the whole day, up till 11:59pm. (if the above link below you to a login screen, use the Guest Login. If you only see an $8 permit option, exit that window and use the link below again). For help with parking please contact UTAPS at (916) 278-7275 or parking@csus.edu