The University at Albany Department of Music is pleased to present faculty
member Duncan Cumming in a solo
piano concert entitled Turns of Centuries on Thursday, November
8, 2007 at 7:30pm in the Recital Hall of the Performing Arts
Center on the uptown campus. Cumming
will perform music composed at the beginning of the 19th, 20th
and 21st centuries by Weber, Debussy and William Matthews, at a time
when all three were setting out on a new path.
The program will also feature the music of Chopin, another great
innovator striking a new course, and the world premiere of the Matthews’ work.
Now in
his second year on the UAlbany faculty, 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. This past September he lectured and performed as part of
“Focus on Frank Glazer: A
Mini-Festival,” which he organized and hosted at UAlbany. Two days later he performed with Glazer to a
packed house at the Franco-American Heritage Center in Lewiston, Maine, a
concert which opened the new season there.
This month, he has a brief tour to New
England which includes six recitals in four days.
Cumming
graduated Phi Beta Kappa with highest honors from Bates College in
1993, where he studied with Glazer. He frequently collaborates with him in
double concerto, two piano and four hand repertoire; in 1997 they performed all
the solo works of Brahms in a series of concerts commemorating the centenary of
the composer’s death. In 1994, he received a full scholarship from the European
Mozart Foundation and participated in intense chamber music study and
performance at the European Mozart Academy in Prague. Upon his return
to the U.S., he studied with Patricia Zander at the New
England Conservatory where he received his Master of Music degree in
1996. In May of 2003 he graduated with the Doctor of Music degree from Boston University where
his principal teacher was Maria Clodes Jaguaribe and his dissertation advisors
were John Daverio and Martin Amlin.
In 2002,
Cumming joined the faculty of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute where
he continues to teach and perform as Assistant Director of the Young Artists
Piano Program. From 1994-2006 he was a
member of the faculty at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He has
lectured, given master classes and served on juries for competitions in
addition to his performing and teaching.
Known for his innovative and carefully constructed programs, Cumming
often presents informal commentary to the audience on the music he plays.
He has commissioned, premiered and recorded new works for solo piano, violin
and piano, and piano trio. 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.
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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