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SFA's Chamber Music Festival Continues with Viennese Concert
Sylvia Bierschenk - July 8, 2008
NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - Guest artists Meredith Maddox, violin, and Melissa Lewis, viola, will be among the five musicians performing chamber music associated with Vienna, Austria, during "An Evening in Vienna," the second concert of the Chamber Music in the Pines Festival, presented at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 15. The festival, which is held in Cole Concert Hall, is a joint presentation of the Stephen F. Austin State University College of Fine Arts and School of Music.Each of the four concerts included in this year's festival features music from or associated with a different European city, explained Jennifer Dalmas. SFA assistant professor of music and the festival's director. "Since Vienna is such a major musical center, we had a wide range of works from which to choose!" Dalmas continued. "But we narrowed our selection to chamber works written for strings and decided on three famous pieces."
SFA faculty member Evgeni Raychev, cello, and Dalmas, violin, will join Maddox and Lewis in performing Franz Joseph Haydn's String Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 33 No 2, "The Joke," and Franz Schubert's "Rosamunde" quartet.
Violist Gene H. Moon, director of orchestral activities at SFA and music director of the Orchestra of the Pines, will join the quartet in presenting W.A. Mozart's String Quintet no. 4 in G minor, K. 516.
"This will be an exciting concert," Dalmas said. "And we are fortunate to have with us Meredith and Melissa, two very talented musicians."
Maddox, an instructor of violin and viola at the University of Arkansas Little Rock, joined the violin section of the Arkansas Symphony in 2002 after receiving her master's degree in performance and completing her doctoral work at the Florida State University. A native of Nashville, Tenn., she received her bachelor's degree in violin performance from Belmont University and was an exchange student in Russia where she studied at the Russian Academy of Music.
Lewis is the director of orchestras at Southern Nazarene University in Bethany, Okla., where she directs the SNU/ Metropolitan Orchestra and teaches methods courses in the School of Music. She received her doctoral degree from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music.
The Chamber Music in the Pines Festival will continue with "Un Soir à Paris" at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 18, and "An Afternoon in London" at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, July 20. Both concerts will be held in Cole Concert Hall, 2210 Alumni Dr. on the SFA campus.
The festival is sponsored in part by Ed and Gwen Cole.
Tickets for each concert are $10 for adults, $7.50 for seniors and $5 for students. For tickets or more information, please call (936) 468-6407 or (888) 240-ARTS, or purchase tickets on-line.