Allegheny Trio Performs 'South of the Equator' September 18
SALISBURY, MD---The Allegheny Trio, with guest soprano Angela Marchese, performs the concert “South of the Equator” 7 p.m. Wednesday, September 18 in the Great Hall of Salisbury University’s Holloway Hall. The performance will include works by Ravel, Piazzolla and De Falla. A showcase by 成人抖阴music students also will be featured.
Comprised of cellist Jeffrey Schoyen, violinist Sachiho Murasugi and pianist Ernest Baretta, the trio is named for the Allegheny River, which flows through the Pittsburgh area where the musicians originally played together. They reunited as a trio upon moving to the Eastern Shore.
Conductor and music director of the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra (SSO) and the Salisbury Youth Orchestra, Schoyen teaches cello and bass at SU. He has given concerts throughout the United States, Germany, Mexico, Spain and Ecuador, and received a Frank Huntington Beebe Grant to study in London with William Pleeth. He is also a Tanglewood Gustav Golden Award recipient. Schoyen honed his cello skills at the New England Conservatory of Music and Carnegie Mellon University, before earning his D.M.A. at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Murasugi has performed extensively as a professional orchestral and chamber musician. She has been concertmaster of the Filarmonica del Bajio in Mexico, and a member of the West Virginia Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic and Springfield Symphony. She received the National Endowment for the Arts Rural Residency Grant in chamber music and has performed in such venues as the Kennedy Center, Museo del Prado, and the Music Center at Strathmore. She is a graduate of Manhattan School of Music and holds a D.M.A. from Ohio State University. Currently she is currently concertmaster for the SSO.
A successful soloist and chamber musician, Barretta has performed extensively throughout the U.S. and Canada. A member of the piano faculty at Juilliard School of Music, he has appeared at the Seoul Music Festival and Academy in South Korea. A collaborative artist, he has played with such internationally recognized musicians as baritone Christopher Robertson and trumpeter Terry Everson. He studied at Oberlin Conservatory and earned a D.M.A. from Peabody Conservatory.
Known for her “rich, burnished voice,” Marchese has thrilled audiences both locally and abroad. She holds a doctorate of musical arts degree from the University of Maryland where she specialized in the study and performance of bel canto repertoire and techniques. Marchese is a professor of vocal, Voice and class voice at Northern Virginia Community College.
Sponsored by the Music, Theater and Dance Department, the concert is free and public is invited.
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