The University at Albany Department of Music is pleased to present faculty
emeritus Findlay Cockrell in a concert entitled Three Duo Sonatas on Saturday, November
10, 2007 at 8pm in the Recital Hall of the Performing Arts
Center on the uptown campus. Three
works chosen by Cockrell will be on the program which features three
guest artists -- Beethoven Violin Sonata with Hilary
Cumming, Poulenc Flute Sonata with Yvonne Chavez
Hansbrough and Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata with Nathaniel Parke.
The Beethoven
Sonata in A Minor is one of the composer's ten sonatas for this duo combination
and the only one Cockrell has yet to play in
public. The Poulenc Sonata is one of several that composer wrote for
piano and wind instrument and is probably the favorite of them all; it
serves as an "intermezzo" in this concert. The Rachminonoff
Cello Sonata, written at the time of the Second Piano Concerto, is quite
simply Cockrell's favorite piece
of music by any composer.
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.
Cumming is a founding member of the Christiane
Trio (horn, violin, piano) and the Abbot Trio (piano, violin, cello) and has
participated in concerts from South America to the former
Soviet bloc. She is concertmaster of the Chatham Chorale Orchestra and has
performed as a soloist with the Reading Symphony, Concord Orchestra, and the
Boston Symphony Orchestra. Along with
her concerts in the greater New England, Ms. Cumming
currently directs the Orchestra and Chamber Music Ensembles at Concord Academy.
Currently the principal
flute of the Glens Falls Symphony, Yvonne Chavez Hansbrough recently released
her first solo CD titled American Flute Music: Leaving the 20th Century. She has performed at the Oberlin Baroque
Performance Institute, Foundation for Baroque Music Festival, National Flute
Association conventions, Piccolo Spoleto Chamber Music Festival and several
flute festivals in the Southeast. She was founder of the Middle Tennessee Flute
Society and has performed with the Las Cruces Symphony, the El Paso Symphony,
the Nashville Symphony, the Nashville Chamber Orchestra, the Huntsville
Symphony (AL), the Albany Symphony Orchestra, the Shaker Mountain Music Festival
and Glimmerglass Opera.
Parke is a member
of the Bennington String Quartet, the Adirondack Baroque Players and is
principal cello of the Berkshire Opera Orchestra. He has also been a member of
the Boston Composers String Quartet with whom he can be heard performing new
works by Boston composers on the
MMC label. He is currently an adjunct teacher of cello at Williams College. As a soloist, he has been heard with the
Wellesley Symphony and the Sage City Symphony. His free-lance work in the Albany and Boston areas ranges from
period instrument performances to premieres of new works. He received his
training at the Longy School of Music and Bennington College studying with George Neikrug and Maxine
Neuman and in London with William
Pleeth.
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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