Pianist 17-year-old Kostelanetz at Franco Center

LEWISTON — Ksenia Kostelanetz will present the fourth annual Frank Glazer Memorial Steinway Concert at the Gendron Franco Center at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 23.

Glazer, who played the inaugural concert on the center’s Steinway piano in 2006 and returned every year to present solo concerts, died in January 2015, weeks shy of his 100th birthday. Kostelanetz was his youngest student and took lessons from him for several summers while in Maine.

Kostelanetz, who spends her summers with her family in Greene, is only 17, but to hear her play classical music on the piano, an audience might think they were listening to a seasoned virtuoso. She was born in Indianapolis to a musical family of immigrants from St. Petersburg, Russia. The family resides permanently in Wisconsin.

Ksenia Kostelanetz began her piano lessons at age four and has studied with Sue Medford, Glazer, Chiharu Naruse and Stephen Swedish. She had master classes with concert pianists Andre-Michel Schub and Alan Feinberg. Fluent in French and Russian, she has attended school in France and visited France and Russia several times. She will attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the fall. She plans to become a neonatologist.

The Frank Glazer Memorial Steinway Concert is free and will open the 18th season at the Gendron Franco Center in the performance hall, which now houses two Steinway grand pianos donated to the center. Kostelanetz will perform pieces by Schubert (Impromptu Op. 142 No. 3, Musical Moment No. 3, his Liszt Ave Maria, Serenade, and Der Muller und der Bach) and Chopin (Barcarolle, Fantasie Impromptu, Nocturne Op. 72 No. 1, and C# Minor Nocturne Etude Op. 25 No. 1).

The doors bar will open at 6 p.m.

For more information about this concert, call 207-783-1585 with any questions. The center is at 46 Cedar St. in the Little Canada section of Lewiston, just across the Lown Peace Bridge from New Auburn. The Gendron Franco Center is handicap accessible.