Above: Dr. Elizabeth Moak

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College’s Jackson County Campus will host a cello and piano recital on Thursday, Sept. 12, at 7 p.m. in the Fine Arts Auditorium. Dr. Alexander Russakovsky and Dr. Elizabeth Moak, artists and faculty members at The University of Southern Mississippi, will present a program that will include works by composers Edvard Grieg, Robert Schumann and Francis Poulenc.

A graduate of Yale University and the University of Santa Barbara, Russakovsky has appeared in numerous solo and chamber music performances in Russia, Israel, Europe and the United States. Afounding member of the Jerusalem Academy String Quartet, he also performed in the Chamber Music Series of the Spoleto Festival in Italy, the Barge Music in New York City and with the Western Slope Music Festival in Colorado. He has served on the faculties of the Adriatic Chamber Music Festival in Bonefro, the IV Violoncello Biennal in Peru and the CICA Chamber Music Festival. Most recently, Russakovsky has given master classes and recitals in Taiwan, Israel and Latin America. A recipient ofmany awards, he won the Angela and Maurice M. Clairmont Competition in Tel Aviv, the Performing Arts Foundation Competition in Santa Barbara and the 1999 CareerGrant of the Esperia Foundation.

Noted for her “sensitivity” and “generous imagination,” Moak, from Switzerland, has performed throughout the United States and internationally. Winner of the Mu Phi Epsilon International Competition, she has also been recognized for hercollaborative work by the Music Academy of the West and Peabody Conservatory (studies with Leon Fleisher, Julian Martin and Ann Schein). Critics recently gave commendatory attention to her 2012 debutsolo recording “Art Fire Soul: Piano Music of Judith Lang Zaimont,” recorded at the request and under the guidance of the Zaimont, the composer.

The recital is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Dr. Jonathan Kilgore, Jackson County Campus Fine Arts Department chair, at (228) 497-7707.