The University at Albany Department of Music is pleased to present the Capital Trio in its second UAlbany
appearance on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 at 7pm in the Recital
Hall of the Performing Arts Center on the uptown campus. The concert will feature classical trios by
Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn.
The Capital Trio
began as the Cecilia Piano Trio in 1997, named not only for the patron saint of
music but also for the cellist’s daughter who was two years old at the
time. Founding and current members
Duncan Cumming and Şölen Dikener were surprised to discover at their first
rehearsal that their teachers, Frank Glazer and Paul Tortelier, had performed
together in Paris
and Boston
almost 70 years earlier and the young performers immediately forged a musical
bond of friendship. Violinist Hilary
Cumming joined the group in 1999 and they gave concerts and master classes from
New England to the Midwest.
A review from the Kalamazoo Gazette described
the trio as “convincing both as strong individual musical personalities and as a
cohesive unit.” The trio was re-established
at UAlbany last year and taking on a new name to reflect their new incarnation
in New York.
Now in
his third year on the UAlbany faculty, pianist 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. Last spring, he traveled
to Massachusetts and West
Virginia for recitals in addition to his concerts in New York, and this past fall a tour took him from New York to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia
for solo recitals, outreach concerts for children and a Capital Trio
performance at Marshall
University. In 2002 Cumming joined the faculty of the
Boston University Tanglewood Institute where he continues to teach, coach
chamber music and perform as Assistant Director of the Young Artists Piano
Program.
Violinist Hilary
Walther Cumming is also currently on the faculty at UAlbany. She is concertmaster of the Cape Cod
Sinfonietta and has been heard as soloist with this ensemble as well as with
the Reading Symphony, Concord Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. A versatile artist, she is comfortable in
many styles including classical, baroque and Irish traditional music. Ms. Cumming has participated in concerts from
South America to the former Soviet bloc and
continues to be active in performances across the Northeast. Her most recent compact disc recording is
available from AFKA Records.
Şölen Dikener continues his music career in the USA as cello/bass professor and director of the
university symphony orchestra at Marshall University. He also
works in Turkey
where he is the director of the international summer music academy and chamber
music festival, Akademi Datca.
Dikener has performed in the US, Turkey,
Germany, Austria and France as a recitalist, chamber
musician and soloist with orchestras. As a dedicated chamber musician, he has
shared the stage with the Shanghai String Quartet. In the recording studio, Dikener has
premiered the cello works by Turkish composers for the AK Muzik and Yesa
labels. His first CD featured the world premiere recording of the Elegy by Paul
Tortelier and another includes the music of living Turkish composer Ilhan
Baran.
Tickets are $10 for the general public, $8 for seniors &
UAlbany faculty/staff and $5 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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