Pianist Lori Sims will present a program of Bach, Ravel and Schumann Wednesday, Feb. 28 at the Schoolcraft College free noon concert. Sims received the First Prize Gold Medal at the 1998 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, where she also won the prize for the best performance of a work by Brahms.

Currently an associate professor of piano at Western Michigan University, Sims has performed throughout America, Europe, and China including engagements with the NordDeutscheradio Orchester, Hannover; the Israel Philharmonic; the Indianapolis Symphony; and the Yale Philharmonic. In 2000, she appeared as a recitalist and master-class artist at the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival and debuted at Alice Tully Hall in New York City.

Sims’s other awards include first prize co-winner of the Felix Bartholdy-Mendelssohn Competition in Berlin, winner of the 1993 American Pianists’ Association Competition with outstanding distinction from the jury, and the silver medal winner in the 1987 Kosciuszcko Foundation Chopin Competition.