The precise and skillful playing of pianist Mia Chung can be heard on Sunday at the Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall. The young virtuoso will be performing a classical piano concert presented by Ames Town and Gown.

Chung is also a radio personality. Paula Forrest Helmuth, artistic director of Ames Town and Gown, said Chung will be giving a commentary from the stage.

“Chung is extremely warm and has an outgoing personality,” Helmuth said. “She came highly recommended.”

Compositions on the program are Bach’s “Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue,” Mendelssohn’s “Fantasy in F-sharp minor,” Lee Hyla’s “Riff and Transfiguration” and Beethoven’s “Waldstein Sonata.”

“The Beethoven and Bach pieces are two very great works written for piano,” Helmuth said. “They will be familiar to the audience.”

Helmuth also commented on the piece by Hyla.

“It’s a new work and it shows off Ms. Chung’s virtuosity,” she explained.

Stephen Willson, publicist for Ames Town and Gown, said there will be a great deal of variety at the performance.

“There will be things that appeal to everyone,” Willson said.

According to Willson, “Waldstein Sonata” will have a very unique interpretation and “Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue” will be very different from Beethoven’s piece.

“It’s free forming with lots of changes in harmony,” Willson explained. “There will be very clean lines and it will be very energetic.”

Karl Gwiasda is on the Board of Ames Town and Gown and has the task of preparing the program notes and booklets.

“I like to think that all the Town and Gown concerts will appeal to people who like to hear fine music well played,” Gwiasda said. “Anyone who has studied piano might, of course, be especially interested in a concert that will include pieces that demand considerable skill to play.”

He mentions that the composition by Hyla was written especially for Chung and might intrigue younger listeners.

“Hyla belongs to a generation of composers who grew up on rock music, and it has been an influence on these composers’ musical thinking,” Gwiasda says. “But heck, one of Beethoven’s best sonatas — the one nicknamed the ‘Waldstein’ — will also be on the program, and could there really be anyone who wouldn’t want to hear that?”

Gwiasda also noted Chung’s talent.

“From the program she has chosen, a program that contains some dazzlingly difficult pieces that are exciting to hear, she must have remarkably fleet fingers,” he said.

One of the goals of Town and Gown is to help bring younger listeners to the concerts.

“Bach, Beethoven — these guys deserve a hearing. There is a reason that their music hasn’t been dropped in the dumpster of history,” Gwiasda said.

The concert is at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday evening. Chung will also give a master class in piano sponsored by the ISU music department on Sunday afternoon from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in the recital hall.

Students with ID can attend the concert for free. Tickets for the public are $15. They are available at the door and in advance at Rieman’s Music in Ames, Big Table Books and the ISU music department.