Violin, French Horn, and Piano Trio
Date:     Tuesday - Sep 29, 2009
Contact: hpac@andrews.edu

Saturday October 3, 2009, 8:00 P.M.
Reserved Seating Tickets $10
Andrews University Student Tickets Free

Faculty member director of the Andrews University Symphony Orchestra and violinist, Claudio Gonzalez; Scott Russell playing the French horn; and former faculty member and music department chair who now resides in Tennessee, pianist Peter Cooper, will perform in an extraordinary blend of instruments in this Faculty Recital Trio performance.

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Program
Sonata for Piano and Violin in B-flat Major, K. 454 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Prélude Non Mesuré for Solo Horn, Op. 27, No. 22 - Jacques Gallay

Chant sans Paroles for Horn and Piano - Robert Clérisse

Méditation, Opus 72, no. 5 - Peter Tchaikovsky

Etude tableau in D Major, Opus 39, no. 9 - Sergei Rachmaninoff

Trio in E-flat Major, Opus 40 - Johannes Brahms

Biographies

Dr. Claudio González began his music studies in his native Venezuela. Between 1978 and 1981, he continued violin studies at the Royal College of Music in London, receiving a degree in violin performance. In 1992, under the auspices of the Fulbright Foundation of the government of the United States and the Ayachucho Foundation of Venezuela, he studied violin and orchestral conducting at Michigan State University, where he received a Master degree in Violin Performance in 1994 and a doctoral degree in Orchestral Conducting in 2003.

Among the activities developed by Claudio González which influenced his training the following could be mentioned: in 1974 he attended the World Orchestra of the International Federation of Young Musicians as a delegate from Venezuela where he had opportunity of playing under Leonard Bernstein, Michael Tilson-Thomas and Seiji Ozawa. In 1975, under the guidance of Dr. Jose Antonio Abreu, he formed part of the group that founded the National Youth Symphony of Venezuela. At the Royal College of Music he was a member of the Chamber Orchestra where he had the opportunity of playing under Lorin Maazel and George Solti. As a professor, he taught in important music schools and conservatories in Venezuela.

Claudio González was very active as a chamber musician with the Cuarteto Rios Reyna of Caracas as well as guest conductor of important orchestras in Venezuela. From 1995 to 1999 he was assistant conductor of the Chacao Youth Symphony in Caracas, and music director of the Chamber Orchestra of Universidad de Carabobo in Valencia, Venezuela.

In 2004,he accepted the position as music faculty and director of orchestral studies. In 2009 he received the “University Award of Excellence” by the Adventist University of the Philippines for his leadership and direction of the International Adventist Youth Music Festival celebrated during the Andrews University Orchestra Tour in May 2009.

Scott Russell is Assistant Principal Horn of the South Bend Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Quintessence Brass Quintet. He teaches horn at Saint Mary’s College and Bethel College. Dr. Russell has performed with orchestras in Indiana and Michigan and served as Principal Horn of the Western Nebraska Chamber Players and the Lucca (Italy) Festival Opera Orchestra. He has previously taught at Andrews University, Lake Michigan College, Southwestern Michigan College, Taylor University, the University of Notre Dame, Ball State University, and the University of Cincinnati.

An advocate of contemporary chamber music, Dr. Russell presented a lecture-recital of 20th-Century Works for Horn, Voice, and Piano at the College Music Society Great Lakes Regional Conference in 2003 and premiered Eleanor Trawick’s Endangered Species: Six Miniatures for Horn and Cello with his wife, Carol Bullock Russell, at the same conference.

Dr. Russell holds music degrees from Butler University, the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and Ball State University. He is a member of the International Horn Society and Pi Kappa Lambda, a national music honor society.

Peter Cooper has performed and taught throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, Mexico, and Europe. He holds degrees from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music, spent a year in advanced music study at the State Conservatory of Music in Cologne, Germany as a recipient of a Fulbright/DAAD Grant, and earned his Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance at the University of Michigan.

Peter Cooper is a professor in the School of Music at Southern Adventist University, where he teaches piano and music theory. An enthusiastic teacher, he has also served on the faculties of Andrews University, the University of Michigan All-State Program at the Interlochen National Music Camp, and the Master Works Festival of the Christian Performing Artists’ Fellowship. Whether teaching or performing, Peter Cooper is committed to fostering an appreciation of artistic beauty and desires to share his Christian witness through music.