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Claire Pinkston ’25 to present Maryville College senior recital on April 22

April 9, 2025

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Claire Pinkston ’25

Maryville College senior Claire Pinkston ’25 will present a recital at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 22.

The recital, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Harold and Jean Lambert Recital Hall of the Clayton Center for the Arts, located on the MC campus.

The program will open with vocal selections by Fauré, Brahms, de Falla and Vaughn Williams that will be assisted by collaborative pianist Chase Hatmaker ’14. Pinkston’s performances of Beethoven’s “Piano Sonata in G, Op. 49, No. 2” and selections from “Children’s Corner” by Debussy will follow. The last set is a collaboration with guest performers Dana Patterson ’26 and Ella Morse ’27, featuring songs popularized by the folk group the Wailin’ Jennys.

“Working toward this performance has been an incredible experience, and I am so excited to get to share what I’ve learned with the people in my life,” Pinkston said.

Pinkston, a Music major from Loudon, Tennessee, is a 2021 graduate of Loudon High School. 

Maryville College is a nationally-ranked institution of higher learning and one of America’s oldest colleges. For more than 200 years we’ve educated students to be giving citizens and gifted leaders, to study everything, so that they are prepared for anything — to address any problem, engage with any audience and launch successful careers right away. Located in Maryville, Tennessee, between the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the city of Knoxville, Maryville College offers nearly 1,200  students from around the world both the beauty of a rural setting and the advantages of an urban center, as well as more than 60 majors, seven pre-professional programs and career preparation from their first day on campus to their last. Today, our 10,000 alumni are living life strong of mind and brave of heart and are prepared, in the words of our Presbyterian founder, to “do good on the largest possible scale.”