Marcía Porter, Soprano
Benjamin Sung, Violin
Pamela Ryan, Viola
Gregory Sauer, Cello
Read Gainsford, Piano
Natalie Sherer, Piano
Valerie M. Trujillo, Piano
Heidi Louise Williams, Piano and special guest Mary Jane Ryals
Poet Laureate of the Big Bend of Florida
Thursday, October 20, 2022 Seven-thirty in the Evening Opperman Music Hall
PROGRAM
Sonata for Piano (1957)
Carlisle Floyd I. Allegro risoluto (1926–2021)
“Broken Chimney in the Surf”
Read by Mary Jane Ryals, Poet Laureate of the Big Bend of Florida
Lament for Cello and Piano (2000)
Gregory Sauer, cello Natalie Sherer, piano
Fantasy for Solo Viola (2014)
Pamela Ryan, viola
Sea-shell (Lowell)
The Turtle (Nash)
The Seagull (Nash)
Ellen Taaffe Zwillich (b. 1939)
Carl Engel (1883–1944)
John Corigliano (b. 1938)
Norman Shapiro (1930–2020)
Jeremiah Evans (b. 1978) Kudzu (Frazelle)
Summer in the South (Dunbar)
Kenneth Frazelle (b. 1955)
Marcía Porter, soprano
Valerie M. Trujillo, piano
Please refrain from talking, entering, or exiting while performers are playing. Food and drink are prohibited in all concert halls. Please turn off cell phones and all other electronic devices. Please refrain from putting feet on seats and seat backs. Children who become disruptive should be taken out of the performance hall so they do not disturb the musicians and other audience members. Health Reminder: The Florida Board of Governors and Florida State University expect masks to be worn by all individuals in all FSU facilities. Thank you for your cooperation.
1. Bygone Memories (1879–1970)
2. After sundown
3. Danse negre
Benjamin Sung, violin Read Gainsford, piano
“Live Oak” Mary Jane Ryals Read by Mary Jane Ryals
Jeanine Duke Pearson (1832–1980) Scotch and Water Joe Zawinul (1932–2007)
Camilo Perez, alto saxophone; Jacob Wright, tenor saxophone Brett Cole, trumpet; Wayne Pearcy, trumpet Russell Ramirez, trombone; Andrew Salow, piano Jose Serrano, bass; Collin Hopkins, drums
Todd Queen, Dean, College of Music
Eric Rieger, Assistant Professor of Voice, College of Music
Holly Hanessian, MFA Program Director, Professor of Art Michelle McDaniel, Assistant Director of Production, College of Music Nicholas Smith and the Opperman Music Hall production crew Tyler Hast, Kim Shively, and Wendy Smith, College of Music
Mary Jane Ryals, Poet Laureate of the Big Bend of Florida, was a University Fellow in Creative Writing. won a fiction Florida Book Award for the novel Cookie & Me. She was also a winner of the Yellow Jacket Press Chapbook in poetry (Music in Arabic) and has published four other poetry chapbooks. She’s published a short story collection (A Messy Job), a full poetry collection (The Moving Waters) and a mystery novel (Cutting Loose in Paradise). She worked as a Business Communication professor at FSU. She’s also been a part time faculty member of Florida State University’s International Programs in Italy, Spain and London since 2001.
A Tallahassee native, Michelle began working in mosaics 9 years ago while living in Austin, TX. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and a Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Management, both from Florida State University. She has exhibited extensively at juried art shows, has had her work displayed in galleries, and started Masterpiece Mosaics, LLC in 2015 while living in Texas. She successfully transferred the business to Tallahassee, and in addition to selling art glass, tools and materials for mosaics and stained glass, she also teaches workshops at her home studio and teaches Glass on Glass classes for the City of Tallahassee. During the pandemic, she quickly pivoted to teaching online, and has students now from all over the country. She is currently the Assistant Director of Production Support and Front of House Operations for the College of Music at Florida State University. She has two small, rambunctious children who are “artists in training,” Lucy and Miles. You can find more information about Masterpiece Mosaics at masterpieceglass.net or on Facebook at Facebook.com/Masterpieceglass.
Feeding Stork along Bottom Road; A September Day at St. Marks; Ochlocknee Bay at Panacea
A Tallahassee native, Eluster began painting as a child and has won numerous awards. He has exhibited in a variety of museums and galleries and collected by museums such as Custom House Museum in Clarkesville, TN, Polk County Museum of Art in Lakeland, FL, and the Riley House Museum/Center here in Tallahassee.
Public Collections include All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, FL, Florida League of Cities and Leon County Libraries in Tallahassee, FL, just to name a few. There are also many private collectors from around the country. Eluster is the Artist-In-Residence for the Riley House Museum and Resource Center.
His fascination with history, particularly the people and places of North Florida has resulted in a body of work that is treasured by history and art lovers of the region. Words frequently used to describe his work include uplifting, inspiring, and enlightening. In these works, he conveys a sense of awe at the diversity of nature while drawing the viewer in with his detailed brush strokes.
Jaime Schmidt Coral GriefHi I’m Jaime! I am a senior at Florida State University pursuing a degree in Studio Art, with a minor in both Art History and Art Entrepreneurship. I consider myself a multidisciplinary artist specializing in ceramics, painting, and mixed media.
I was born and raised in Michigan; however, I have spent the past nine years in south Florida. My time spent in both areas ignited my passion for nature and conservation, which is present throughout my work. I take inspiration form years spent outdoors, at local beaches, and trips to marine life and nature centers. My most recent works share a principal theme of the ocean and the environmental concerns that threaten numerous ecosystems.
I am passionate about coral reefs, for the same reason I am passionate about ceramics: both are diverse and unique, but also fragile and vulnerable. Despite being used as cups, plates, and common house decor, ceramics can go unnoticed regardless of playing an important role in our daily lives. The same holds true for coral reefs. Even with their small size, these valuable reefs play an important role in marine ecosystems because of their diversity. Due to factors of rising sea temperatures, pollution, and fossil fuel emissions, coral reefs are struggling to survive.
Coral Grief investigates the relationship between fossil fuels and coral bleaching. This piece combines glazed earthenware clay with mixed media elements to investigate the negative effects of fossil fuels on healthy coral. When coral comes into contact with oil, it begins to bleach, obstructing its growth and reproduction, and causes it to die. However, when coral bleaches, it is not dead; it is simply more vulnerable to damage. The gasoline container was painted white to represent the outside factor that causes healthy coral reefs to bleach. The coral pieces have a variety of textures, and are glazed with a variety of colors, to reflect healthy coral. Some coral pieces are white and dull, indicating bleached, unhealthy coral caused by the oil.
I hope that by creating artwork inspired by the sea, and environmental issues, viewers will understand how important the ocean is and will be inspired to become more knowledgeable about these issues. There is still time to help ocean ecosystems recover from pollution and return to health. By raising awareness about these issues there is hope that we can all work together to restore the world beneath the sea.
Award-winning soprano Marcía Porter made her New York solo recital debut in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in 2005. An active recitalist, the soprano has performed in numerous venues throughout the United States, Italy, Brazil, and the Czech Republic. Porter has sung at such prestigious international festivals as the Prague Proms, Piccolo Spoleto Festival, the Ravinia Festival, and the Ameropa International Chamber Music Festival. She has performed with such national and international organizations as the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra, Beijing International Symphony Orchestra (Beijing, China) and the Camerata Filarmonica Bohemia (Prague, Czech Republic). Porter has also performed with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Chautauqua Opera, Dayton Opera, and Chicago Opera Theatre. Ms. Porter’s discography includes the 2011 world premier recording of Requiem für Mozart, works for soprano and orchestra by Antonio Rosetti, which was released by the German record label Ars Produktion and the 2013 recording, Open Thine Heart, a recording of contemporary American vocal works, which was released by Albany Records.
A Fulbright Scholar and Rotary International Cultural Ambassadorial Scholar, Porter has won several other awards and honors including the 2004 National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Artist Award Competition, the NATS Intern program, finalist in the Metropolitan Opera Central Regional Competition, Jessye Norman Graduate Fellowship in Voice, Opera Carolina Young Artist Recital Program Award, and the Farwell Award. In 2011-2012 Porter was a Fulbright Scholar to Brazil. Her research was entitled “Bridging boundaries through musical collaboration and cultural exchange: a lecture and recital series of contemporary classical Brazilian and African American vocal literature.” During her residency at the Universidade de São Paulo, she presented numerous recitals, lectures and masterclasses in cities throughout Brazil including São Paulo, Campinas, Alphaville, Ribeirão Preto and Brasilia.
Porter is a Professor of Voice at the Florida State University College of Music. She is a much sought after clinician and has presented masterclasses throughout the midwestern and southeastern US. She has served on the faculty of Ameropa International Chamber Music Festival in Prague, Czech Republic and as a visiting Professor of Voice at Universidade de São Paulo. Dr. Porter, a graduate of the New Orleans Center for the
Creative Arts, received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in voice performance from Northwestern University. Porter earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in performance from The Universityof Michigan, where she studied with world-renowned Metropolitan Opera singer Shirley Verrett. Previous teachers include Margaret Harshaw, Carmen Mehta, and Kathleen Kaun.
Pamela Ryan, Professor of Viola at the Florida State University College of Music, performed as soloist with the Aspen Philharmonia as winner of the Aspen Music Festival
Young Artist Concerto Competition playing Alan Shulman’s Theme and Variations, working with the composer. In 2014, she was soloist in the Bartok Concerto with the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, and returns there as a soloist in 2018. She has performed dozens of concertos and orchestral solos under the baton of Robert Spano, Peter Bay, Darius Mikulski, David Hoose, Alexander Jiménez, and many others.
Active in the new music scene, she has recorded 20th century chamber music for labels Naxos, Col Legno and the Canadian Broadcasting Company (Gold Label). Her new music solo performance was praised by the American Record Guide for “superb technique and musicianship.” She was violist of the Bowling Green String Quartet, touring Mexico City and Carnegie Hall, working with George Crumb on his “Black Angels” for electric string quartet, and performed in duo regularly with Robert Spano who wrote “Quaderno” for viola and piano for her. In addition to new music activities, she has performed chamber music as faculty artist for summer festivals at Aspen (CO), Brevard (NC), Yellow Barn (VT), Schlern (Italy), Green Mountain (VT), Idyllwild (CA) and Bowdoin (ME), as a faculty member at FSU, and as a returning guest at Seventh Species (OR), and Amelia Island Festival (FL).
As orchestral musician, she was principal violist of the Southwest Florida Symphony and Chamber Orchestra on Sanibel Island for three years, and principal violist of the Tallahassee Symphony for 28 years. Beyond traditional viola activities she has performed on rebab in Bali and in San Francisco with Balinese musicians, performed on historic period viola with Jaap Schroder, and performs regularly as a local jazz violist in Tallahassee with the band JazzEtcetera. Her live video performances of rarely played historic viola caprices have many unsolicited subscribers on YouTube. Ryan received the MM from the Conservatory of Brooklyn College (CUNY) and the DMA from the Cincinnati CollegeConservatory (UC).
A dedicated teacher, Ryan won the FSU University Teaching Award for Excellence in Teaching, nominated by students. She was honored to give the national collegiate viola master class at the ASTA 2008 National Conference in Albuquerque, and has given many national conference presentations, as well as serving on national boards. She is proud that
her former students hold viola positions in professional orchestras and universities on 5 continents.
Professor of Cello Gregory Sauer joined the College of Music in 2006. A native of Davenport, Iowa, Gregory Sauer attended the Eastman School of Music and the New England Conservatory. His principal teachers included Ada Marie Snyder, Charles Wendt, Paul Katz, Laurence Lesser, Bonnie Hampton and Colin Carr. For eleven years prior to his arrival at FSU Sauer taught at the University of Oklahoma, where he was named Presidential Professor (2005).
Praised for his versatility, Sauer performs in many different musical arenas. He has appeared in recital at the Old First Concert Series in San Francisco, the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, the Brightmusic Concert Series in Oklahoma City, at universities and schools of music such as the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt, the Shepherd School at Rice University, the University of Iowa and the University of Tennessee, among many others. Sauer was a prizewinner in the Hudson Valley Philharmonic and Ima Hogg National competitions and has performed concertos with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, the Houston Symphony, the New American Chamber Orchestra, the Quad City Symphony, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, the Columbus (GA) Symphony, the Tallahassee Symphony, and the Missoula Symphony, among others.
Sauer joined the Carpe Diem String Quartet in 2019, playing concerts in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Siena, Italy, and in the group’s first China tour. Along with his brother, Thomas Sauer, he serves as co-Artistic Director of Chamber Music Quad Cities in their hometown of Davenport, Iowa. Other chamber music ventures have resulted in appearances at the Austin Chamber Music Center, the Snake River Music Festival, the Victoria Bach Festival, the Texas Music Festival, the Colorado Music Festival, and the Garth Newel Music Center. As a member of the Fidelio Quartet, a prizewinning group in the London International String Quartet Competition, he performed concerts in the UK, Germany, Italy, and the Tanglewood and Aspen Music Festivals.
In 2006, Sauer was appointed to the music faculty at Florida State University. Prior to that he taught eleven years at the University of Oklahoma, where he was named Presidential Professor. Other teaching/performing positions have been a visiting professorship at the University of California at Los Angeles, summer programs such as the Texas Music Festival, the Duxbury Music Festival, the Foulger International Music Festival, the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, Red Lodge Music Festival, and the Hot Springs Music Festival.
Sauer has recorded for MSR Classics, Harmonia Mundi, Albany, and Mark Records.
Sauer attended the Eastman School of Music and the New England Conservatory. His teachers included Ada Marie Snyder, Charles Wendt, Paul Katz, Laurence Lesser, Bonnie Hampton, and Colin Carr.
Dynamic pianist Natalie Sherer thrives in collaboration with singers and instrumentalists alike. Her experiences converge in her multifaceted career as a performer, vocal coach, and teacher. Sherer earned the D.M.A. in Collaborative Piano, studying with renowned pianist Martin Katz, from the University of Michigan.
Sherer’s musical journey began over 25 years ago when she was drawn to the piano and started her studies as a child, greatly supported by her artistic family. Growing up in a home filled with classical music developed her ear and imagination in connection to music. She soloed with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra at age 14 and performed numerous solo recitals before earning the Bachelor of Music (studies at Wheaton College with Karin Edwards and Mark Edwards and the Manhattan School of Music with Donn-Alexander Feder) and Master of Music degrees in Piano Performance and a Collaborative Piano Cognate (Roosevelt University with Winston Choi, Dana Brown, and Angela Yoffee). Along the way, discovering the joy of collaborating well has been an inspiring, enriching journey. Sherer fosters security, confidence, and creativity with her musical partners and finds joy in creating moments of beauty and connection for audiences.
Sherer was the recipient of a Brown Loranger Fellowship in the Professional Program at SongFest 2022 and was recently selected as an emerging artist to perform in Sparks & Wiry Cries’ NYC SongSLAM Festival. After joining the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) 2020 Intern Program as a pianist/coach, she performed at the NATS 2022 National Conference. In February, at University of Michigan, she premiered “Sorrow & Ecstasy: The Complete Songs of Henri Duparc,” a semi-staged musical narrative following four characters’ journeys of love and loss. Additional dissertation recitals included a program featuring Rachmaninov’s Sonata for Cello and Piano with Anne Richardson of the Bavarian Radio Symphony and Grieg’s Haugtussa cycle with Antona Yost, as well as a lecture recital, “Metamorphosis,” which explored macro- and micro-transformations in Brahms’ Piano Quintet in F minor.
In 2019, Sherer performed and coached at the Prague Summer Nights Young Artist Festival and was a Vocal Chamber Music Fellow for the Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago (CAIC). A frequent recitalist, she performs in concerts, competitions, and masterclasses in the midwest and enjoys working with a wide range of musicians from students to professional artists, including former Lyric Ryan Opera Center Young Artist Will Liverman. In addition, she has recently performed in events and masterclasses for Martin Katz, Graham Johnson, Jake Heggie, Javier Arrebola, Nicholas Phan, Caitlyn
Lynch, Sheila Silver, Kayo Iwama, B.E. Boykin, John Musto, Thomas Hampson, Jesse Blumberg, and Joélle Harvey.
Pianist for the trio “Artful Song,” Sherer brings 19th century salon-inspired performances to contemporary audiences. She has also performed with organizations including CAIC, Hampsong Foundation, Pianoforte Foundation, Chicago College of Performing Arts (CCPA) OperaFest, Schubertiade Festival, Credo Music, Lynx Project, Fourth Presbyterian Church’s Concert Series, Fortnightly Club of Chicago, Musicians Club of Women, Genesis Concert Series, CHAI Collaborative Ensemble, and Chicago Vocal Arts Consortium. In addition, she has performed numerous solo piano recitals, in professional choirs, and as a guest soloist with orchestras, both as a pianist and soprano.
As a freelance artist, Staff Pianist at Roosevelt University and DePaul University, and Graduate Student Staff Assistant at University of Michigan, Sherer performed with numerous choirs, voice, and instrumental studios, including those of Mark Crayton, Cheryl Frazes-Hill, Eric Esparza, Nicole Cabell, Maria Lagios, Nicholas Phan, Isabel Leonard, Amanda Majeski, Stanford Olson, George Shirley, Louise Toppin, Stanford Olsen, Allan Glassman, Richard Stillwell, Danielle Belen, Richard Aaron, David Halen, and Fabiola Kim.
Associate Professor of Violin at Florida State University, violinist Benjamin Sung is also a Faculty Artist and violin coordinator at the Brevard Music Center, and principal second violin of the Brevard Music Center Orchestra. Recent concert highlights include the 2018 Brevard Music Festival; a complete Beethoven cycle with pianist David Kalhous; an appearance with the FSU University Symphony Orchestra in Piazzolla’s Estaciones Portenas for the 2016 ASTA National Conference; and a TED talk for TEDx Fargo. Mr. Sung has an upcoming new solo album featuring works by Sciarrino, Berio, Maderna, and Schnittke; in the 2019-2020 season, he has engagements to play the 24 Caprices by Paganini in Canada, Taiwan, Brazil, and throughout the United States.
Sung has performed as soloist with numerous orchestras, including the Camerata Romeu of Havana, Cuba, the Virtuosi of Festival Internacionale de Musica in Recife, Brazil, and the National Repertory Orchestra. He is equally in demand as a chamber musician, having shared the stage with great performers including pianist Monique Duphil, and cellists Antonio Meneses and Marcio Carneiro. He is a past winner of the Starling Award of the Eastman School of Music and the Violin Fellowship of the Montgomery Symphony, and an Aaron Copland Fund Recording Grant.
An enthusiastic advocate of contemporary music, Sung has recorded the music of composers Steve Rouse and Marc Satterwhite for Centaur Records, has performed and taught for Studio 2021 at Seoul National University, and has worked with many of the greatest composers of this generation, including John Adams, Pierre Boulez, George Crumb, and Helmut Lachenmann. In 2012, he released an album of new American works entitled FluxFlummoxed on Albany Records, a recording hailed by Fanfare Magazine as “a brilliant performance of four superb works” with “impeccable intonation and tone production.”
Sung holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Oleh Krysa, and Master’s and Doctorate degrees from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, from the studio of Nelli Shkolnikova. Sung also studied at the Professional Training Program at Carnegie Hall, the Lucerne Festival Academy, the New York String Seminar, and the Chamber Music Residency at The Banff Centre.
Valerie M. Trujillo’s experiences in song literature and opera make her a much sought-after accompanist, coach, and teacher of masterclasses. Formerly Co-Director of the Young American Artists Program at Glimmerglass Opera, she has been associated with many opera companies including Santa Fe Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Wexford Festival Opera (Ireland), Connecticut Opera, Shreveport Opera, Mississippi Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Opera Theatre at Wildwood, Augusta Opera, Ohio Light Opera and Opera in the Ozarks. Ms. Trujillo has served as artist faculty at the Tanglewood Music Center, Ars Vocalis México (Zamora, México), the Taos Opera Institute, Si parla, si canta (Urbania, Italy), and La Musica Lirica (Novafeltria, Italy) as well as the academic faculty at the Hartt School, Middle Tennessee State University, Yale University, and Central Connecticut State University. She made her Weill Recital Hall debut in 2006 and can be heard on the Grammy-nominated Chandos release of Bennett’s The Mines of Sulphur, as well as on the Mark Records, Albany, and Azica labels. Ms. Trujillo is proud to have served as the NATS Master Collaborative Teacher for the 2020 and 2021 NATS Intern Programs. A native of Santa Fe, NM, she received her musical training from Eastern New Mexico University and the University of Illinois. She taught at Florida State University from 1990-1996 and rejoined the faculty in 2002 where she is now Professor of Vocal Coaching and Accompanying and Coordinator of the Voice and Opera Area.
Praised by New York critic Harris Goldsmith for her ‘impeccable soloistic authority’ and ‘dazzling performances’, American pianist Heidi Louise Williams has appeared in solo and collaborative performances across North America and internationally. Her engagements have included recitals at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Taiwan National Recital Hall in Taipei, the Kennedy Center, the Chicago Cultural Center, the Brevard Music Festival, the French Embassy in Washington D.C., and festivals in France and Italy. She has given multiple guest artist residencies in leading conservatories and universities in Taiwan and China and has presented lecture-recitals and performances at national and international conferences held by the Society of American Music, the College Music Society, and the International Clarinet Association. Her playing has been featured on WFMT Chicago, Classic 99 St. Louis, WQLN Pennsylvania, and KUAT Tucson radio stations, on WWFM Trenton, New Jersey for David Dubal’s “The Piano Matters,” and on classical stations throughout Taiwan and Canada.
Williams is actively involved in the promotion of new music and has worked with many distinguished composers. Her 2011 Albany Records solo album, Drive American, was named among the top ten classical albums of 2011 in the Philadelphia City Paper, featured in Fanfare’s 2012 Critics’ Want Lists, and has been described as ‘veritably operatic’, ‘bold yet thoughtful’, ‘unflappable’, ‘provocative and stimulating’ (Fanfare), possessing ‘…the muscularity and poetic power to bring this demanding repertory to life’ (American Record Guide). Her 2019 Albany Records solo release Beyond the Sound, featuring sonatas by Griffes, Walker, Floyd, and Barber, was selected twice for inclusion in the 2020 Fanfare Critics’ Want Lists, garnering the headline by British music critic Colin Clarke: “Brilliant programming meets performances of fire meets excellent recording meets superb documentation: this is a significant release from all angles.” An avid chamber musician, Williams has collaborated with numerous outstanding American and international artists. Other recording projects for Albany Records include her award-winning 2018 release with soprano Mary Mackenzie, Vocalisms, a 2-disc album devoted to premiere recordings of American Art Songs by Crozier, Harbison, Primosch and Rorem; and Conversa, an album of North and South American cello-piano duos including a World Premiere by André Mehmari, released in December 2021 with cellist Gregory Sauer. Her playing has been published in the Modern Classical American Songbook Volume I. She has also recorded for the Naxos, Centaur and Neos labels.
Recipient of both a 2020 Undergraduate Teaching Award and a 2020 Outstanding Graduate Faculty Mentor Award from Florida State University, Williams joined the FSU College of Music in 2007. Her growing roster of graduate and undergraduate students have won prizes regionally, nationally, and internationally in both solo and collaborative contexts. They have earned awards to pursue graduate and artist diploma degrees at prestigious institutions including the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Eastman School of Music, and the University of Michigan among others, and they are actively
gaining employment in recognized teaching and performing roles both in the U.S. and abroad. Williams completed her BM, MM, and DMA degrees at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, where she studied with Ann Schein and coached chamber music with Earl Carlyss, Samuel Sanders, Stephen Kates, and Robert McDonald. Prior to this, she studied with William Phemister at Wheaton College, where she later taught as his sabbatical replacement. She is artist-faculty for the MasterWorks Music Festival, has served as festival pianist for the Sunriver Music Festival, and has also taught and performed at the Interharmony International Music Festival and Csehy Chamberfest in Philadelphia.
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