The University at Albany Department of Music is pleased to present the Parnas/Cockrell Trio on Saturday, October 20, 2007 at 7:30pm in the Recital
Hall of the Performing Arts Center on the uptown campus. Faculty emeritus Findlay Cockrell will be joined by sisters Madalyn and Cicely
Parnas in a program of Beethoven, Turina and Arensky.
Madalyn Parnas, 16, began musical studies early in piano,
voice and violin. Upon becoming the youngest to win 1st prize in the Berkshire Music School’s Merit
Competition at age ten, she established herself as a violinist and made her
orchestral debut two years later playing the Kabalevsky Violin Concerto.
Immediately following this success, her solo performance in Boston’s Jordan Hall for
the NPR radio show “From the Top” led to a recording and feature in the
magazine “Music Alive!” Since then, Madalyn has performed with the Newburgh
Symphony Orchestra, the Georgia Philharmonic and the Schenectady Symphony
Orchestra. She has taken numerous top prizes in competition and is a Carondelet
Scholar at the College of St. Rose. Madalyn studies
with world-renowned violinist James Buswell
and legendary pianist Peter Serkin.
Cellist Cicely
Parnas,14, began her musical studies at age four and was
setting award records at an early age, including a 1st prize win at age nine
earning her a performance with the Walden Chamber Players of Boston. Last year
alone, Cicely won three first prizes in competition including the Uel Wade
Scholarship Competition, the Schenectady Symphony Stefan Concerto Competition
and the Berkshire Lyric Young Artist Competition, as well as being named a
winner of the 2007 National ASTA Solo Competition in the Junior Division.
Cicely was a full scholarship student at the Hotchkiss School Chamber Music
Program, has participated in the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Quartet
Workshop as the youngest participant and studies chamber music privately with
legendary pianist Peter Serkin. She is a
student of world-renowned cellist Peter Wiley.
Findlay Cockrell was a scholarship student at Harvard College and the Juilliard School of Music, where he received Bachelor and
Master's degrees in piano and was a student of the late Edward Steuermann. He gave his New York debut in 1965 under the sponsorship of Concert
Artists Guild and Town Hall. On the faculty of UAlbany from 1966 until
2006, he was an Associate Professor of
Music and a Collins Fellow. In addition
to numerous solo recitals, Cockrell has
appeared as concerto soloist with orchestras throughout the U.S., including the
San Francisco Symphony, the Albany Symphony, the Schenectady Symphony, the Jackson (Michigan) Symphony and the Plymouth (Massachusetts) Symphony.
Since 1985, he has given chamber music and solo concerts in Barbados, Grenada and St. Lucia and, since 1995, he has
performed in Russia on regular visits in connection with the Albany
Tula Alliance. He is the founder and
director of the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra and the Gershwin Pops Orchestra.
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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