The Virginia Tech Department of Music presents pianist Dmitri Shteinberg performing a solo recital featuring Mussorgsky’s epic work “Pictures at an Exhibition” on Friday, Nov. 30 at 8 p.m. in the Squires Recital Salon located on College Avenue adjacent to downtown Blacksburg.

Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” was a tribute to his close friend artist Viktor Hartmann who died in 1873. After viewing a commemorative art exhibition of Hartmann’s works Mussorgsky produced his masterpiece in just one and a half months. The composition is meant to be a tour of the exhibition that included more than 400 paintings with Mussorgsky focusing his music on the paintings Hartmann created while traveling abroad. “Pictures at an Exhibition” is music that offers virtuosic piano playing and exquisite listening pleasure.

The program will also include Robert Schumann’s Six Intermezzi Op. 4, Phantasiestucke Op. 111, and Gesange der Fruhe Op. 133.

Recently called “protean and refined” by The New York Times, Shteinberg has appeared across North America, Germany, England, France, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Bulgaria and Israel. His solo performances include the Jerusalem Symphony, The Italian Philarmonica Marchetiana, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Israel Camerata Orchestra, and Porto National Symphony; he was a guest artist at the Sarasota and Summit Music Festivals, Music Festival of the Hamptons, the “Oleg Kagan” Festival in Germany, Festival Aix-en-Provence in France, and Open Chamber Music in Cornwall, England. Recent concerts include Kennedy Center and Alice Tully Hall, a recital at the Boas Charitable Trust in London and a performance of Beethoven’s complete cello and piano sonatas at BargeMusic in New York.

Tickets are $3 for students and seniors, and $5 for general admission and are available at the door one hour prior to performance time.