Complete works of Beethoven series continues

Maureen Yuen

What: Faculty Recital featuring Maureen Yuen, violin with Mary Marden Cobb, piano
Date: Sunday, Jan. 31
Time: 4 p.m.
Where: Rosch Recital Hall.
FREE and open to the public.

The third concert in the four-concert series, “The Complete Works of Beethoven for Violin and Piano,” features violin faculty member Maureen Yuen with Mary Marden Cobb on piano. This installment features some of Beethoven’s most beloved music for violin and piano, including Sonata No. 1, Op. 12, No. 1; Sonata No. 3, Op. 12, No. 3; and Sonata No. 7, Op. 30, No. 2.

The fourth and final concert is scheduled for Saturday, February 6 at 8pm in Rosch Recital Hall with Maureen Yuen and Father Sean Duggan (free and open to the public).
Artist Biographies:

Maureen Yuen, violin:
Maureen Yuen graduated from the University of British Columbia at the age of 21 with a Master of Music Degree in Violin Performance. Her primary teachers were Andrew Dawes, Nancy Di Novo and Gerald Stanick. She has also worked with members of the Emerson, Fine Arts, Orford, St. Lawrence, and Tokyo string quartets. As a founding member of the English Bay String Quartet, Ms. Yuen has toured North America, and has also performed as a soloist and chamber musician in the United States, Canada, Norway, and Italy. She has played with the Victoria Symphony, Wichita Symphony and the National Academy Orchestra of Canada. She is also a member of the Bellingham Festival Orchestra, whose recordings can often be heard on NPR's Performance Today. Currently, Ms. Yuen is on faculty at the School of Music at the State University of New York at Fredonia where she maintains a full studio of undergraduate and graduate violin students and several chamber music ensembles. She is also on the faculty of Schlern International Music Festival and Competition in Italy as well as Music, Meadows, and Mountains Retreat on Orcas Island, WA. Ms. Yuen was formerly on faculty at Mercyhurst College in Erie, PA as Instructor of Violin and Viola. Her active schedule includes solo and chamber music recitals and masterclasses throughout North America, including appearances at Brock University, University of Buffalo, Cleveland State University, Ohio University, Northern Ohio University and the University of Minnesota at Duluth. She is a string adjudicator with Kiwanis Music Festivals in Canada and a member of the College of Examiners of the Royal Conservatory of Music.

Mary Marden Cobb
Mary Marden Cobb received her Bachelor of Music degree in performance from Oberlin Conservatory with Joseph Schwartz; Master of Music degree in performance from Manhattan School of Music with Seymour Lipkin; and did postgraduate study with Peter Serkin. She attended the Round Top Music Festival, Round Top Texas, with Leon Fleisher, as a scholarship participant. Ms. Cobb was a finalist in the Artists International Competition as a duo-recitalist in 1981.

Ms. Cobb's numerous solo recitals include St. Andrew Music Society Series, Gallery Concert Series, American Landmark Series, all in New York; "A Little Noon Music", Greenwich. Conn.; Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall, Chautauqua, N.Y., King Concert Hall and Rosch Recital Hall in Fredonia. Her chamber music experience is extensive, including appearances at St. Bartholemew's Church, St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Fourth Universalist Society of New York Series, Madison Equity Noontime Series, Donnell Library, Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center, all in New York City as member of the Arcadia Trio. Other chamber music performances include recitals at The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, N.Y., Candlelight Concert Series, New Brunswick N.J., Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y., Menotti in Buffalo, Fredonia Trilogy VII in Chautauqua, and Opus:Classics Live in Buffalo, as a member of The Fredonia Trio. She is currently the organizer and a member of Fredonia's Retro; a faculty group dedicated to 20th century chamber music repertoire.

Her teaching includes private teaching in New York City from 1982-1998, faculty of Rye Country Day School, 1978-88, referred teacher for Manhattan School of Music, and she is currently a piano faculty member of SUNY at Fredonia where she has taught since 1998. Other musical activities include musical direction for "The King and I" in Great Barrington, Mass., founder and director of American Renaissance Theater Chamber Music Workshop 1984-85, and creator of "Music Maestro", a music teaching game. Ms. Cobb is a native of Fredonia.