School of Music begins the year with faculty & guest artist recitals
 Janet Sung  Pablo Mahave-Veglia |
Wolfram, a top medalist in the prestigious Tchaikovsky, Naumburg, and Kapell International Piano Competitions, and Hawkins, who made his solo debut with Mstislav Rostropovich and the National Symphony Orchestra, are both world-renowned musicians and will join Sung in an exciting program that will include the Beethoven Sonata for Violin and Piano in G major, Op. 96, Bartok Contrasts, and Schickele Serenade for Three.
The concert is at 8 p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall and is free and open to the public.
On Sunday, Sept. 13, guest artist and Baroque specialist Pablo Mahave-Veglia will perform three Bach suites on Baroque cello. The three suites are widely considered to be among the best literature ever written and are favorites for scholars and amateurs alike.
This recital begins at 7 p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall and is free and open to the public.
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William Wolfram: A versatile recitalist, concerto soloist, and chamber musician, William Wolfram has won the respect of musicians and critics across the country and abroad. Wolfram has several recordings on the Naxos label, has played recitals in cities throughout the U.S. and Europe, and has performed with dozens of the finest orchestras in the world. A graduate of The Juilliard School, William Wolfram resides in New York City with his wife and two daughters.
Richard Hawkins: In 1992, he made his American Solo Debut in the Kennedy Center with Mstislav Rostropovich and the National Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Hawkins served as principal clarinet of the Pennsylvania Ballet Orchestra for five seasons and is an active contemporary, chamber, and orchestral musician. He previously served on the faculties of the Interlochen Arts Academy from 1993-2001 and Depaul University in 2000-2001. Since 1997, Mr. Hawkins has been a Mentor Musician at the Hot Springs Music Festival each June in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Beginning in 1989 he has been a sought after craftsman and maker of custom clarinet and saxophone mouthpieces. Mr. Hawkins is also an artist representative, clinician and woodwind design consultant with the G. Leblanc Corporation.
Violinist Janet Sung: She enjoys an acclaimed international career as a virtuoso soloist, praised for her lustrous tone, dynamic interpretations and bravura performances. As a soloist with orchestras around the world, Sung has been praised for her compelling performances of traditional works from Vivaldi to Berg. She regularly tours with fiddler Mark O'Connor's American String Celebration, and is frequently heard at distinguished music festivals, including Aspen Music Festival, the Britt Festival, Hot Springs Music Festival, Sewanee Summer Music Festival and Switzerland's Lucerne Festival. Chosen by Leonard Slatkin as the recipient of the Passamaneck Award, she was also a winner of the Aspen Music Festival's Nakamichi Violin Competition and has been awarded top prizes and grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, National Federation of Music Clubs Competition and Cho Chang Tsung Foundation. Janet Sung joined the SUNY Fredonia faculty in 2004 and continues to teach at The Juilliard School (initially as the Starling/DeLay Institute Fellow). Her teachers have included renowned violinist Josef Gingold and the esteemed Dorothy DeLay, as well as extensive studies with Masao Kawasaki, David Cerone, Eugene Phillips and the Juilliard String Quartet.
Dr. Pablo Mahave-Veglia: He is an associate professor of music at Grand Valley State University in Michigan and during summers teaches at the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina. His repertoire ranges from the early Baroque, performed on period instruments, to researching, performing and recording the music of contemporary Latin American composers. He has appeared as a soloist with orchestras in his native Chile, as well as with the Medellin (Columbia) Philharmonic, and in the U.S. with the Evansville (Ind.) Philharmonic, Southern Illinois University Symphony, Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra and Wood County Symphony. In addition, he has made chamber music appearances throughout the U.S. and in South America. Dr. Mahave-Veglia earned his Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music, a Master of Music degree from Indiana University and Doctor of Music degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
