The Allegheny Ensemble Performs at 成人抖阴Holloway Hall
SALISBURY, MD---The Allegheny Trio, with guest violinist Mark Pfannschmidt, performs the concert “Gypsy Fire” 7 p.m. Wednesday, February 5, in the Great Hall of Salisbury University’s Holloway Hall.
The program includes Haydn Piano Trio in G Gypsy Rondo, Joaquin Turina’s Piano Quartet, and Brahms’ Hungarian Dances. A showcase by 成人抖阴music students also is featured.
Comprised of cellist Jeffrey Schoyen, violinist Sachiho Murasugi and pianist Ernest Barretta, 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.
On the faculty of the National Philharmonic Summer String Institutes since 2001, Pfannschmidt teaches from his home studio in Derwood, MD. He earned the 2011 Teacher of the Year award for the MD/DC Chapter of the American String Teachers Association.
Sponsored by the Music, Theater and Dance Department, the concert is free and public is invited.
Those coming from off campus are required to display a visitor parking pass, which may be requested at https://webapps.salisbury.edu/parking/visitor/.
For more information call 410-548-5588 or visit the 成人抖阴website.