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Marshall UniversityMarshall Digital ScholarAll Performances Performance CollectionFall 10-10-2008Marshall University Music Department Presentsthe Music Alive Series, featuring, Capital Piano TrioŞőlen DikenerMarshall University, dikener@marshall.eduFollow this and additional works at: http://mds.marshall.edu/music_perfPart of the Fine Arts Commons, and the Music Performance CommonsThis Recital is brought to you for free and open access by the Performance Collection at Marshall Digital Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion inAll Performances by an authorized administrator of Marshall Digital Scholar. For more information, please contact zhangj@marshall.edu,martj@marshall.edu.Recommended CitationDikener, Şőlen, "Marshall University Music Department Presents the Music Alive Series, featuring, Capital Piano Trio" (2008). AllPerformances. 753.http://mds.marshall.edu/music_perf/753DEPARTMENT of MUSIC Program A Book of Hours (2001) William Matthews (born 1950) Le Tombeau de Monk MUSIC Fish Fry (Uneven Song) Music Alive Series featuring Capital Piano Trio Friday, October 10, 2008 First Presbyterian Church 12:00 p.m. This program is presented by the College of Fine Arts through the Department of Music, with the support of student activity funds. For more information about this or other music events, please call (304) 696-3117, or view our website at www.marshall.edu/cofa/music. Piano Trio in E minor, Op.90 ("Dumky") Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) Lento maestosa-Allegro vivace, quasi doppio movimento Poca adagio-Vivace non trappo Andante-Poca piu mosso-Vivace non troppo Andante moderato-Allegretto scherzando Allegro-Meno Lento maestosa-Vivace quasi dappio movimenta The Capital Trio began as the Cecilia Piano Trio in 1997, named not only for the patron saint of music but also the cellist's daughter, who was two years old at the time. Founding and current members Duncan Cumming, piano, and Solen Dikener, cello were surprised to discover at their first rehearsal that their teachers, Frank Glazer and Paul Tortelier, had performed together in Paris and Boston almost 70 years earlier and the young performers immediately forged a musical bond of friendship. Violinist Hilary Cumming joined the group in 1999, and they gave concerts and master classes from New England to the Midwest. They were featured as soloists with orchestra in Beethoven's "Triple Concerto" and dedicated themselves to commissioning and perfom1ing new works in addition to performances of standard. trio repertoire. A review from the Kalamazoo Gazette, Michigan, described the trio as "convincing~both as strong individual musical personalities and as a cohesive unit." At the suggestion and encouragement of former Dean Joan Wick-Pelletier, the new trio at UAlbany was established, and they have taken on a new name to reflect their new incarnation in New York. Having held rigorous summer residencies in the past, at Bates College in Maine and Kalamazoo College in Michigan, they are pleased to be rekindling this passion and commitment to the art of chamber music at the University at Albany. Duncan J. Cumming, now in his third year on the faculty of the University at Albany, has performed concertos, recitals, and chamber music concerts in cities across the United States as well as in Europe. The. Kenned~ Center in. Washington DC, Merl<in Hall and Carnegie Recital Hall 1~ New York City, and the Wallenstein Palace in Prague, Cz7ch Republic are among the concert halls in which he has appeared. This past September be lectured and performed as part of "Focus on Fra:IB: CJ;lazer: A Mini-Festival," which he organized and hosted at the Umvers1ty at Albany. Two days later he performed with Frank Glazer to a p~cked house at t?e Franco-American Heritage Center in Lewiston, Mame, a concert which opened the new season there. In October a brief but intense New ?ngland tour included six recitals in four days. The next week he had .his first performance . with ~e University at Albany Orchestra, playmg the Grieg Concerto m A mmor, Op. 16. In the spring h7 travels to ~assachusetts and West Virginia for recitals in addition to his concerts m New York. A recent review from the Portland Press He~ald describes his playi?g as "technically flawless... thoughtful, deliberate and balanced, without a wasted gesture or any histrionics rather like Rachmaninoff.'' ' Born nea: the Canadian ~ord~r in Presque Isle, Maine, Cumming graduated Phi Beta Kappa with highest honors from Bates College in 1~93, where he ~tudied with Frank Glazer. He frequently collaborates ~th Mr. Glazer m double concerto, two piano, and four hand repertoire; m 1997 they performed all the solo works of Brahms in a series of conce~ commemorating th.e centenary of the composer's death. In 1994 he r7~eived a. M:l scholarship from the European Mozart Foundation and participated m mtense chamber music study and performance at the European Mozart Academy in Prague. Upon his return to America he stu~ed wit!1 Patricia Zander a! the New England Conservatory, where he received his. Master of Music deg:ee in 1996. In May of 2003 he graduate~ witJ;t ~e Doctor of Music d~gree from Boston University, ~here ~s p~cipal teacher was Mana Clodes Jaguaribe and his dissertation advisors were John Daverio and Martin Amlin. In 2002 ~ing joined the. faculty of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute where he contmues to teach, coach chamber music and perform as Assistant Director of the Young Artists Piano Program'. From 1994-2006 he was a member of the faculty at Phillips Academy in Andover, 1'4as.sachusetts. He has lectured, given master classes, and served on Jnnes for competitions in addition to his performing and teacbffi:.g. Known for bis ~ovative and carefully constructed programs, C~ng often presents informal commentary to the audience on the music he plays. He has commissioned, premiered, and recorded new works for s~lo p~ano'. viol~ and .Pi~~>, and piano trio. He performs frequently with bis. wife Hilary, v10limst and head of applied music at Concord Academ~ m ~assacbi:;setts. With the cellist ~olen Dikener they make up the Capital P1an.o Tno, the new ensemble m residence at the University at Albany. Duncan and Hilary have two daughters Lucy Rose and Mairi Skye. ' Violinis~ Hil~ry Walther Cumming is currently on the faculty at the State Umvers1ty of New York at Albany. She is concertmaster of the Cape Cod Sinfonietta and she has been heard as soloist with this ensemble as well as with the Reading Symphony, Concord Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. A versatile artist, she is comfortable in many styles including classical, baroque and Irish traditional music. Ms. Cumming graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Northwestern University in Chicago Illinois where she studied with Gerardo Ribeiro. In 1991 she moved to Bloomington Indiana and earned a Master of Violin Performance degree under the tutelage of Franco Gulli in modern violin, and Stanley Ritchie in baroque violin. Upon graduatio~ she was awarded a Fulbright grant, and she spent the 1993-4 year m Copenh~gen, Denmark, studying at the Royal Conservatory of Music with Peder Elbaek and Marta Libalova and traveling monthly to Paris for lessons with Sylvie Gazeau. ' Ms. Cumming has participated in concerts from South America to the former Soviet bloc, and continues to be active in performances across the Northeast USA. Her most recent compact disc recording is available from AFKA Records. Solen Dikener continues his music career in the USA and in Turkey; as a cello professor at Marshall University and as music director of the international summer music academy and chamber music festival Akademi Datca. ' The artist .Pe~formed in the US, Turkey, Germany, Austria and France as a recitalist, chamber musician and soloist with orchestras. As a de~icated chamber musician, Dikener shared the stage with Shangai Strmg Quartet; as well as performed several groups. Since 2002 he plays with Fontana Piano Trio. In recording studio, Dikener premiered the cello works by Turkish composers for Albany Records and AK Muzik labels. His first CD was released in 1998 and it is available at www.towerrecords.com. His other CD is dedicated to the music of Ilhan Baran (2002). A dedicated teacher Dr. Dikener established the annual Ohio Valley Cello Festival in 2003 t~ gather cellists for a festive cello day. During his tenure with Kalamazoo SymI?h.ony as p~ii;i.cipal cellist, he had the opportunity to play with most prestigious musicians. He began his cello studies at the age of eight and attended the State Conservatory of Music in Ankara, Turkey in the class of "Highly Gifted Students". Following his college graduation at the age of 18 he worked with Prof. Tobias Kiihne in Vienna, Austria, and became an' assistant to legendary Paul and Maud Tortelier in Nice France where be also worked with Frieder Lenz and Michel Lethiec. H~ obtained his chamber music "perfectionnement" degree in Nice. . Mr. Dike~er immigr~t7d to the United States in 1992, and completed his. cell<;> .studie~ at Lo~isiana S!ate (¥M) and Michigan State (DMA) Umversitl~s .. His teac.hmg. experience mcludes fulltime professorships at C.entral M1ch1gan Umversity and Hacettepe University (Turkey) and as director of Crescendo Academy in Michigan. 

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