Pianist and USF Alumnus Franz Mantini will appear at Barness Recital on the USF Steinway Series 

Sunday, 28 January 2018 at 4pm. The program will feature Beethoven's Tempest Sonata as well 

as a Liszt-Schubert transcription, Scriabin Etude, and a variety of works by Chopin. Mr. Mantini, a 

student of the late USF professor Jacques Abram, maintains an active schedule of solo and chamber 

performances. He has appear thirty times at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts and has 

performed with current and former principal members of the Florida Orchestra, Houston Symphony, 

and Lafayette String Quartet.