Professor Myung Hee Chung will be kicking off the Music Mosaics concert series with a piano recital at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 18.

The concert will feature the works of Franz Schubert and Sergei Prokofiev. The pieces include Schubert’s “Piano Sonata in A Major D. 959” and Prokofiev’s “Piano Sonata No. 4 in C minor, Op. 29.”

Chung said she started playing the piano at the age of four and has been playing the piano for over fifty years.

“You start young and that’s what you really like, so you continue and make it your career,” Chung said. “That’s one thing about music is you get to continue playing even after you retire,”

She said her desire to play piano stems back to her childhood in Incheon, South Korea.

“There were a whole bunch of little kids living in a neighborhood of Incheon and there was a piano teacher across the street,” Chung said. “All these little kids would go there twice a day to take piano lessons, and we didn’t even get to play the piano until we learned the notes.”

Chung said she chose Schubert’s piece because it contains all the elements of great music including melody, drama, piano technique and variety of mood.

“It is really beautiful,” Chung said. “It has four movements. The second movement is almost like a eulogy. It’s mourning for whomever, or just thinking about somebody.”

Prokofiev’s piece is in direct contrast to Schubert’s piece.

“It’s very percussive and pianistic,” said Chung. “The pieces are about one-hundred years apart. One is totally Viennese school and the other is Russian.”

Chung’s recital is the first in this year’s Music Mosaics concert series.

Music Mosaics was created to help raise money for the Music Department’s Scholarship Fund and will allow the department to recognize students for their musical talents and academic excellence.