BERLIN, N.H. — VIrtuoso of the piano, David Westfall will return to the North Country to play on Friday, Aug. 12, on the historic Erard piano from 1863. The program will consist of the prelude, chorale and fugue of César Franck, the “Nocturne in D-flat Major” by Gabriel Fauré and the “Funérailles” of Franz Liszt.

The concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the sanctuary of St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, Main and High streets. The event is sponsored by Music in the Great North Woods, which offers the concert free, with donations suggested.

Westfall maintains a career as concert pianist, collaborative artist and teacher. Having just returned from a four-week playing trip to Europe, Serbia, Spain and England, Westfall will travel to Seoul, Korea, this fall, and to Novi Sad, Serbia, next March.

He has concertized and given master classes throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Brazil. He has performed with internationally acclaimed string quartets and has presented at the Music Teachers National Association and European Piano Teachers Pedagogy Conference, as well as the World Piano Pedagogy Conference. He has performed at the Three Bridges Chamber Music Festival in Duluth, Minn., and continues to give annual classes at the Royal Conservatory in Toronto, the Royal College in London and Mannheim University of Music and the Performing Arts.

Westfall is associate professor of piano at the Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford, where he is chair of Collaborative Piano and co-chair of the Keyboard Department. He holds music degrees from Texas Christian University, Indiana University and the Juilliard School of Music. He received his doctorate in musical arts from the University of Hartford.

For more information, call 603-466-2865 or 603-326-3242, or go to www.musicgnw.org.