Brahms works for violin and piano focus of faculty recital Oct. 2
 Maureen Yuen, violin professor, joins Piano Professor Father Sean Duggan for a Brahms recital Oct. 2. |
Maureen Yuen and Father Sean Duggan of the Fredonia School of Music faculty will perform the complete works of Brahms for violin and piano at the Sunday, Oct. 2, faculty recital at 8 p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
The duo will perform the Romantic composer's complete works for violin and piano, including the much-loved Sonatas in G Major, Op. 79, A Major, Op. 100 and D minor Op. 108 as well as the lesser-known Sonatensatz (WoO 2).
Canadian violinist Maureen Yuen has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in the United States, Canada, Norway, and Italy. She has also performed with the Victoria Symphony, Wichita Symphony and the National Academy Orchestra of Canada. During the summers, she is on the faculties of the Schlern International Music Festival in the Italian Alps, Music/Meadows/and Mountains in Washington and the Rocky Ridge Music Center in Colorado. Balancing her busy performance schedule, Ms. Yuen is a string adjudicator with Kiwanis Music Festivals in Canada and a member of the College of Examiners of the Royal Conservatory of Music. Ms. Yuen joined the faculty of the School of Music at the State University of New York at Fredonia in 2004 and maintains a full studio there of promising violinists.
SEÁN DUGGAN, OSB, pianist, is a monk of St. Joseph Abbey in Covington, Louisiana. He obtained his music degrees from Loyola University in New Orleans and Carnegie Mellon University, and received a Master’s degree in theology from Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans. From 1988 to 2001 he taught music, Latin and religion at St. Joseph Seminary College in Louisiana and was director of music and organist at St. Joseph Abbey.
In September, 1983 he won first prize in the Johann Sebastian Bach International Competition for Pianists in Washington, D.C., and again in August, 1991. Having a special affinity for the music of Bach, in 2000 he performed the complete cycle of Bach’s keyboard works eight times in various American and European cities. For seven years he hosted a weekly program on the New Orleans NPR station entitled “Bach on Sunday.” He is presently in the midst of recording the complete cycle of Bach’s keyboard (piano) music which will comprise 24 CDs.
Before he joined the Benedictine order he was pianist and assistant chorus master for the Pittsburgh Opera Company for three years. He has performed with many orchestras including the Louisiana Philharmonic, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Leipzig Baroque Soloists, The Prague Chamber Orchestra, The American Chamber Orchestra and the Pennsylvania Sinfonia. From 2110 to 2004 he was a visiting professor of piano at the University of Michigan. Currently he is associate professor of piano at SUNY Fredonia. During the fall semester of 2008 he was also a guest professor of piano at Eastman School of Music. He has been a guest artist and adjudicator at the Chautauqua Institution for several summers, and is also a faculty member of the Golandsky Institute at Princeton, New Jersey. He continues to study the Taubman approach with Edna Golandsky in New York City.
