Pianist Alastair Edmonstone, 27, performs excerpts from Messiaen's epic piano cycle, 'Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jésus' (1944) (Twenty Gazes Upon the Infant Jesus) during a Santa Monica College Music Master Class at SMC Performing Arts Center -The Edye Second Space on Tuesday, March 24, 2009. Edmonstone studied with Mark Racz at Birmingham Conservatoire and with Stephen Drury at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, where he earned a Graduate Diploma and Master of Music degree. Currently he is a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he is a student of Robin McCabe.