THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY College of Music presents
“Girl Power: A Violin and Piano Recital in Honor of National Women’s History Month”
Corinne Stillwell, Violin
Diana Dumlavwalla, Piano
Monday, March 3, 2025
7:30 p.m. | Maguire Center | Westminster Oaks
Romance, Op. 23
Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 39
Amy Beach (1867–1944)
Louise Farrenc
Allegro grazioso (1804–1875)
Scherzo
Adagio
Finale
Elfentanz
Deux Morceaux
Florence Price (1887–1953)
Lili Boulanger
Nocturne (1911) (1893–1918)
Cortège (1914)
Please refrain from talking, entering, or exiting during performances. Food and drink are prohibited in all concert halls. Recording or broadcasting of the concert by any means, including the use of digital cameras, cell phones, or other devices is expressly forbidden. Please deactivate all portable electronic devices including watches, cell phones, pagers, hand-held gaming devices or other electronic equipment that may distract the audience or performers.
Recording Notice: This performance may be recorded. Please note that members of the audience may at times be included in this process. By attending this performance you consent to have your image or likeness appear in any live or recorded video or other transmission or reproduction made in conjunction to the performance.
Florida State University provides accommodations for persons with disabilities. Please notify the College of Music at (850) 644-3424 at least five working days prior to a musical event to request accommodation for disability or alternative program format.
Canadian pianist Diana Dumlavwalla is Associate Professor of Piano Pedagogy at Florida State University. Previously, Dumlavwalla taught at Western University where she developed the faculty’s inaugural doctoral piano pedagogy course. She also serves as a member of the Royal Conservatory of Music’s College of Examiners and adjudicates at local, regional and state/provincial competitions.
As a soloist and chamber musician, Dumlavwalla has performed in North America, Europe and Australia. She has presented lecture recitals and papers at numerous conferences and her research has been featured in journals such as the International Journal of Music Education, American Music Teacher and Canadian Music Teacher. Dumlavwalla was awarded the 2018 and 2021 MTNA E-Journal Article of the Year, the 2023 FSU Advisor of the Year Award and the 2023-2024 FSU University Teaching Award for Excellence in Community Engaged Teaching. She is currently the President of the Florida State Music Teachers Foundation
Dumlavwalla completed the D.M.A. Performance degree at the University of Toronto. She received the M.Mus. (Piano Performance) from the Royal College of Music in London, B.Mus. (Piano Performance and Voice) from Wilfrid Laurier University and the Associate diploma from the Royal Conservatory.
Violinist Corinne Stillwell has enjoyed an active and varied career as a performer, mentor, and arts advocate. Her performance background began when she was selected to enter The Juilliard School at the age of ten, subsequently spending 15 years working with the famed pedagogue Dorothy DeLay. With early successes as the winner of numerous competitions, her concert career has since included a wide range of solo appearances, orchestral leadership, and chamber music collaborations.
As a frequent concerto soloist, Stillwell has been featured more than 50 times with orchestras including the New Jersey Symphony, the Nanjing Philharmonic in China, the Amarillo Symphony, the Greater Rochester Women’s Philharmonic, and on tour to Romania, Hungary, and Poland. As a recitalist, she has performed at Carnegie’s Weill Hall, Chicago’s Dame Myra Hess series, and in Germany, Canada, and across the United States.
Currently Concertmaster of the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, she has been a frequent orchestral leader for more than 25 years, having served as Concertmaster of the Amarillo Symphony, Brevard Music Center Orchestra, Janiec Opera Company, and the School of American Ballet Orchestra; Guest Concertmaster of the Nanjing Philharmonic in China; and Associate Concertmaster of the Rochester Philharmonic and the Victoria Bach Festival. She is also a member of the Arizona MusicFest, an ensemble comprised of colleagues from major symphony orchestras across the country, from New York and Boston to Chicago, Dallas, and Los Angeles.
An avid chamber musician, Stillwell has been featured on NPR’s Performance Today; was a founding member of Trio Solis; and has collaborated with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, violinist Mikhail Kopelman, and members of the Ying, Cavani, Pro Arte, and Carpe Diem quartets. She has also performed at Alice Tully Hall and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York City, Chamber Music Rochester, the Amarillo Chamber Music Society, Kosciuszko Foundation, and the American Festival of Microtonal Music. Other festival appearances include Saarburg (Germany), Aspen, Norfolk, and Skaneateles. As a member of the Harrington String Quartet, she performed extensively across the Midwest, from Texas to Wisconsin. Other projects with the Quartet included a
PBS documentary, TV and radio broadcasts, and collaborations with clarinetist David Shifrin, pianist Robert Levin, and guitarist Pepé Romero. Her mentors have included members of the Juilliard, Cleveland, Amadeus, and Vermeer quartets, and her chamber recordings can be heard on Harmonia Mundi, Naxos, Navona, and MSR Classics.
Stillwell is also a dedicated teacher, empowering young musicians on their paths into a variety of careers, including professors, orchestral and chamber performers, high school orchestra directors, private studio teachers, music therapists, and teaching artists. Appointed to the faculty at Florida State University in 2007, she also taught at the Brevard Music Center from 2009-2022, and has given masterclasses at many music schools, including the Eastman School of Music and Vanderbilt University. Previously, she served on the faculties of West Texas A&M University, Kinhaven Music School, Point CounterPoint Music Festival, and the Hochstein School of Music, where she was the Director of Chamber Music.
With a passion for community engagement activities, Stillwell created “Building Bridges” in 2018, a multi-year project featuring performances of the complete Beethoven String Quartets in collaboration with advanced FSU students. She has taught courses for senior adults at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, and is currently the coach and mentor for the educational performance activities of the Carriola Quartet, Sinfonia Gulf Coast’s Quartet-inResidence. She also curates a series of chamber music concerts in our community as Co-Artistic Director of Music For Food Tallahassee, a nation-wide musician-led initiative to fight hunger and further social justice.