The University at Albany Department of Music is pleased to present a
concert program entitled Mozart and
Bartok on Sunday, February
10, 2008 at 3pm in the Recital Hall of the Performing Arts
Center on the uptown campus. Faculty members Victoria
von Arx and Duncan Cumming will perform Sonata for Two
Pianos by Mozart and will then be joined by fellow faculty member Richard
Albagli and guest artist Mark Foster in Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion by
Bartok.
Now in
his second year on the UAlbany faculty, Duncan Cumming has performed concertos,
recitals and chamber music concerts in cities across the United
States as well as in Europe. The Kennedy Center in Washington DC,
Merkin Hall and Carnegie Hall in New
York City and the Wallenstein Palace in Prague, Czech
Republic are among the concert halls in
which he has appeared. He performs frequently with his wife Hilary, violinist
and head of applied music at Concord Academy in Massachusetts. The couple along with SÖlen
Dikener
make up the Capital Trio, a new ensemble-in-residency
at UAlbany.
Pianist Victoria von Arx has served on the
faculties of Syracuse University, the Metropolitan School for the Arts in Syracuse, the Third Street
Music School Settlement in New York City and the Adamant Music School in Vermont. Prior to her
arrival in the Albany area, she served
on the faculties of the Flint School of Performing Arts and the University of
Michigan-Flint. von Arx received a B. Mus. Ed. from Viterbo College (LaCrosse WI), a M. Mus. in
Performance from Syracuse University and M. Phil.
Musicology from City University of New York. Her major teachers have included
Frederick Marvin, Oxana Yablonskaya, Sascha Gorodnitzki, German Diez and
Menahem Pressler.
Richard Albagli is
the Principal Percussionist with the Albany Symphony Orchestra, Director of the Empire State Youth Percussion Ensemble
and a member of the music faculties
of UAlbany and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has appeared as soloist or
co-soloist several times with the Albany Symphony in works by Creston, Bartok,
Hovhaness and Russell Peck. Albagli has
written more than 20 works for solo percussion and percussion ensemble, along
with a timpani concerto and two works for ensemble and chorus. As
co-founder of Associated Solo Artists (ASA), he has composed a dozen art
songs for voice and percussion, a musical play for children entitled “The Great
Dinosaur Rescue” and a one-act opera, The
Star Thrower, in collaboration
with John Cimino and Jon Klibonoff.
A member of the
Albany Symphony Orchestra and the Empire Jazz Orchestra, Mark Foster also plays
drum set with Dogs of Desire, the ASO’s contemporary-music chamber
ensemble. He has recorded as
percussionist with the New York State Theatre Institute and performed with
NYSTI in Moscow and Jordan. Foster is also
Co-Conductor of the Empire State Youth Percussion Ensemble and has performed
with innumerable artists, including Wanda Jackson, Luciano Pavarotti, and
Aretha Franklin. Foster is on the music
faculty at Skidmore College and also has a
private percussion studio.
Tickets are $8 for the general public and $4 for students and
may be purchased through the Performing Arts Center Box Office. For further information, contact the Box Office
at (518) 442-3997 or visit the Performing Arts Center website at www.albany.edu/pac.
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