Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Host Destiny Mermagen visits with University of Kansas piano student Jair Zacarias and his instructor Priscila Navarro. Jair played Liszt's Reminiscences de Norma and spoke of his winning the KU piano concerto competition, just two weeks before today's performance at KPR. He will soon be rehearsing for an engagement with the KU Symphony and appearing next year.
Jair really gets our Steinway rocking, literally! I've never seen it move and shake like that. It was quite something to behold.
Jair Zacarias performs for us Franz Liszt’s Reminiscences de Norma, a dazzling and virtuosic piano transcription based on themes from Vincenzo Bellini’s opera Norma. This piece stands as a remarkable example of Liszt’s genius in transforming operatic melodies into a piano showpiece that both honors the original work and showcases the pianist’s technical prowess.
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Host Destiny Mermagen visits with University of Kansas piano student Jair Zacarias and his instructor Priscila Navarro. Jair played Liszt's Reminiscences de Norma and spoke of his winning the KU piano concerto competition, just two weeks before today's performance at KPR. He will soon be rehearsing for an engagement with the KU Symphony and appearing next year.
Jair really gets our Steinway rocking, literally! I've never seen it move and shake like that. It was quite something to behold.
Jair Zacarias performs for us Franz Liszt’s Reminiscences de Norma, a dazzling and virtuosic piano transcription based on themes from Vincenzo Bellini’s opera Norma. This piece stands as a remarkable example of Liszt’s genius in transforming operatic melodies into a piano showpiece that both honors the original work and showcases the pianist’s technical prowess.
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