CORVALLIS — First prize winner of the 2001 Cleveland International Piano Competition and finalist in the 2005 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Roberto Plano, will be in Corvallis the first week of February for two public performances.

Those looking for an alternative to watching the Super Bowl can instead catch Plano’s full solo recital — the second concert in Oregon State University’s Steinway Piano Celebration Series — at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3, at the LaSells Stewart Center.

Plano will also be the featured soloist at the opening winter concert of the Corvallis-OSU Symphony Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 6, at the LaSells Stewart Center.

In the solo recital, Plano will perform Beethoven’s Sonata no. 23 in F minor, known as “Appassionata.” He will also perform Debussy’s “L’Isle Joyeuse (The Isle of Joy).” The program will round out with Galuppi’s Sonata no. 5 in C Major, Schumann’s “Three Romances” Op. 28, and Ginastera’s “Suite de Danzas Criollas” Op. 15.

Tickets are $12 each or $6 for students and may be purchased by going to www.tixrus.us, or at the following Corvallis businesses: Gracewinds Music, Grass Roots Books & Music and Beard’s Frame Shop.

With the Corvallis-OSU Symphony orchestra, Plano will perform Chopin’s First Piano Concerto, which was composed when Chopin was only 20. Opening the symphony program will be American composer Samuel Barber’s “Medea’s Dance of Vengance,” which Barber extracted from the ballet by the same name. Concluding the program will be the mighty First Symphony of Finnish composer, Jean Sibelius.

Tickets to the Corvallis-OSU Symphony are $30, $24 and $12, and are available through the orchestra’s Web site at symphony.peak.

org and at the afore-mentioned business outlets. Tickets are also available at the LaSells Stewart Center Box Office before the concert while they last.