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Cedarville University DigitalCommons@Cedarville Guest Artists Concert and Recital Programs 10-21-2016 West Virginia University Piano Trio Department of Music and Worship, Cedarville University Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/guest_artists Part of the Music Performance Commons Recommended Citation Department of Music and Worship, Cedarville University, "West Virginia University Piano Trio" (2016). Guest Artists. 33. http://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/guest_artists/33 This Program is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@Cedarville, a service of the Centennial Library. It has been accepted for inclusion in Guest Artists by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Cedarville. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Sonata for Violin and Piano ........................................................Claude Debussy I.Allegro vivo (1862-1918) II. Intermède: Fantasque et léger III. Finale: Très animé Sonata for Violoncello and Piano ................................................. Claude Debussy I. Prologue: Lent, sostenuto e molto risoluto II. Sérénade: Modérément animé II. Finale: Animé, léger et nerveux Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano ................................................... Maurice Ravel I. Allegretto (1875-1937) II. Blues: Moderato III. Perpetuum mobile: Allegro Recital Hall No flash photography Bolthouse Center for Music Please turn off all cell phones Cellist Erin Ellis leads a versatile career as a performer and teacher. She has performed as a soloist and chamber musician across the United States as well as in Canada, Chile, Italy, and Holland. She was recently appointed as Assistant Professor of Cello at West Virginia University’s School of Music. Formerly based in Atlanta, Georgia, Dr. Ellis has appeared as a chamber musician at venues including the University of Alabama, the Atlanta Public Library, and Georgia State University. She served as Assistant Principal Cello of the Atlanta Opera and continues to serve as Principal Cellist of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra (GA). Dr. Ellis is also an accomplished baroque cellist and a member of the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra. She can be heard on several recordings with the New Trinity Baroque Orchestra. A dedicated music educator, she joins West Virginia University from the faculty at Agnes Scott College and the Waldorf School of Atlanta. She also served as interim cello faculty at State University of New York at Fredonia. In demand as guest artist and clinician, she has conducted masterclasses at Georgia Tech, Furman University, and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She was also invited to present at the American String Teacher's Association Conference in Louisville, KY, and in Tampa, FL. She spends her summers in Leicester, VT, performing and coaching chamber music at Point CounterPoint Chamber Music Camp. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Dr. Ellis began her cello studies as a Suzuki student at the age of 4. She earned Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music, and she completed Suzuki teacher training with Tanya Carey. She went on to receive the Doctorate of Musical Arts degree with a minor in Early Music from the Eastman School of Music, where she was recognized with the Graue Award for Excellence in Musicology. She studied the cello with Richard Aaron, David Ying, Alison Wells, Phoebe Carrai, and Martha Gerschefski. Violinist Dr. Mikylah Myers McTeer’s performances have been called “energetic and virtuosic” by the Pittsburgh Tribune- Review, and “captivating” by Boulder, Colorado’s Daily Camera. On April 8, 2016 Parma Recordings released her newest CD “REACT: Music for Flute, Violin and Interactive Computer” on the Ravello Records label. A collaboration with flutist Francesca Arnone, “REACT” has received glowing reviews both in the United States and abroad. Barcelona’s Sonograma Magazine applauded the duo’s “sensitivity and musicality” and Norman Cahn, writing for “I Care If You Listen,” noted that listeners will “be dazzled by new, undiscovered sonorities.” Dr. McTeer can also be heard on the 2011 Parma Recordings release “Appalachian Inspiration” and with pianist Lucy Mauro on the 2015 Delos Records release “Return to Old Ireland.” At West Virginia University’s School of Music, Dr. McTeer is associate professor of violin and coordinator of the string area. Before joining the WVU music faculty in 2007, Dr. McTeer was concertmaster of the San Juan Symphony and assistant professor of violin and viola at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. An award-winning chamber musician, Dr. McTeer was formerly the violinist of the Moores Piano Trio in Houston, Texas, which was the silver prize-winner at the 2000 Carmel Chamber Music Competition. She has performed internationally as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Italy, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, and Spain, and was a 19-year member of the Britt Festival Orchestra in Jacksonville, Oregon. Recent performances in Europe included a recital at the Rubinstein Hall at the Steinway-Haus in Munich, Germany with pianist Lucy Mauro. Dr. McTeer received her doctoral and master’s degrees in violin performance from the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music, where she studied with Fredell Lack. During her time in Houston, Dr. McTeer regularly performed with the Houston Symphony and the Houston Grand Opera. Dr. McTeer earned her Bachelor of Music degree in violin performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where she studied violin with Roland and Almita Vamos. She was also a four-year-member and co-captain of the Oberlin College women’s soccer team. Lucy Mauro is an Associate Professor at West Virginia University. Her recent recordings for Delos include From the Unforgetting Skies: The Piano Music of Margaret Ruthven Lang, selected for the December 2013 NAXOS Critics’ Choice List, and Return to Old Ireland: The Music of Mary McAuliffe. Recent performances include the Esterházy Festival in Austria, and she can be heard on Thomas Hampson’s national radio program Song of America. Dr. Mauro has performed and taught for festivals and schools in Germany, Italy, Spain, China and the US. Her publications include Master Singers: Advice from the Stage from Oxford University Press, which includes interviews with many of today’s top opera singers and Essential Two-Piano Repertoire, Essential Keyboard Trios and Essential Piano Duets, Volumes 4 and 5 from Alfred Publishing. A graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, she received Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctorate degrees, and studied with Ann Schein and Julio Esteban..