CONWAY, Ark.
(March 6, 2014) – Cellist David Gerstein and violinist Er-Gene Kahng will perform Sunday, April 20, at 3 p.m. in Reves Recital Hall at Hendrix
College.
The recital is free and open to the public. For more
information, contact Dr. Griebling at 501-450-1249 or griebling@hendrix.edu.
The duo will
perform contemporary chamber music as well as a new work for solo cello composed
by Hendrix music professor Dr. Karen Griebling.
The program will include:
- Duo
for Violin and Cello by
Schulhoff
- Alpenmusik
for Solo Cello by
Griebling
- Duo
for Violin and Cello by Martinu
- Duo
for Violin and Cello by Kodaly
Currently the principal cellist of the Arkansas
Symphony and cellist of the Quapaw String Quartet, Gerstein has appeared in
concert all over the world, from the stage of Carnegie Hall to the Great Wall
of China. He has appeared as a featured soloist with the Arkansas and Pine
Bluff Symphonies, and performs frequently across the state, earning him the
title of “the busiest classical musician in Arkansas” according the Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette. Mr. Gerstein is Co-Artistic Director of the East-West
Virtuosi in Ashland, Ore., and in 2014 will join the orchestra at the Cabrillo
Contemporary Music Festival. He is an alumnus of the Eastman School of Music
and Rice University.
An associate professor of violin at
the University of Arkansas, Dr. Er-Gene Kahng taught at the Neighborhood Music
School in New Haven, Conn. Kahng has earned top prizes at The Young Artist Competition (The
Philharmonic Society of Arlington, Mass.), The Carmel Music Society Instrumental Competition, The
SAI Instrumental Competition (held at Chautauqua, N.Y.), The Fort Collins Symphony Young
Artist Competition, the UCLA Philharmonic Concerto Competition, and the R.D.
Colburn School’s Orchestra
da Camera Concerto
Competition. In addition to being a member of the Fulbright Trio, the
resident faculty piano trio at the University of Arkansas, Kahng participates
and co-founded the Fulbright Summer Chamber Music festival, a six-week summer chamber
music series. In the
latter part of the summer, Kahng serves as the violin faculty and 2nd violinist
in a string quartet as part of the Bay View Music Festival in Petoskey,
Mich.
Founded in
1876, Hendrix College is a national leader in engaged liberal arts and sciences
education. For the sixth consecutive year, Hendrix was named one of the
country’s “Up and Coming” liberal arts colleges by U.S. News and World Report. Hendrix
is featured in the latest edition of Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools
That Will Change the Way You Think about Colleges, as well as the 2014 Princeton Review’s The Best 378 Colleges, Forbes magazine's
list of America's Top Colleges, and
the 2014 Fiske Guide to Colleges. Hendrix has been affiliated with the United Methodist
Church since 1884. For
more information, visit www.hendrix.edu.