Jamaicans will have an opportunity to hear one of the world's great concert pianists when she gives her first recital in the island on Sunday, April 20.

The internationally-acclaimed Teresa Walters, of whose playing The Washington Post wrote, "Her hands create cascades of luminescence", will perform at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in New Kingston.

Beginning at 5:30 p.m., the recital is being presented by the Excelsior Community College in association with the Jamaica Methodist District and is in aid of the newly-established Excelsior Community College Foundation.

In recent seasons, Walters has performed on six continents and all over the United States, receiving exuberant praise for her solo recitals and performances as guest artiste with various orchestras. Her recent engagements in Russia as orchestral soloist earned her five curtain calls.

Honouring Liszt

She is the first American pianist invited by Hungary to perform three prestigious recitals honouring the anniversary of Franz Liszt's birthday. In addition to recitals at the Liszt Academy of Music and Memorial Museum in Budapest, she performed at the Esterhazy Palace in Austria under the patronage of the present governing Prince Anton Esterhazy.

Her Liszt recordings have been hailed by Fanfare magazine as "a formidable display of technical dexterity and red-blooded power." The Budapest Sun wrote of her new CD: "Her fingers give off sparks and she takes the keyboard into orbit."

Among the world's greatest concert halls she has performed on are New York's Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall in London, the Salle Cortot in Paris and the Great Hall of Moscow.