Allegheny Ensemble Performs 'Fascinating Rhythm' Concert
By 成人抖阴Public Relations
SALISBURY, MD---The Allegheny Ensemble presents its annual Salisbury University spring concert “Fascinating Rhythm” with guest violinist Amos Lawrence, violists Yuri Tomenko and Cameron Raecke 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 26, in the Great Hall of Holloway Hall.
The program features works including Brahms Viola Quintet in G major, op. 111 and works by Gershwin. A Student Showcase is also featured.
Comprised of cellist Jeffrey Schoyen and violinist Sachiho Murasugi, the ensemble is named for the Allegheny River, which flows through the Pittsburgh area where the musicians formerly played together.
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.
Admission is free and the public is invited. Tickets are available through the online ticket office.
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