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UNCG Faculty Trio Presents Middle Voices Concert Dec. 4

GREENSBORO — Viola, clarinet and piano will “sing” in harmony during the Middle Voices Faculty Concert at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro on Wednesday, Dec. 4. The performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the School of Music Recital Hall.

The faculty ensemble will consist of clarinetist Dr. Kelly Burke, violist Dr. Scott Rawls and pianist Dr. Andrew Harley. Burke and Rawls are principal players in the Greensboro Symphony and active with Greensboro’s Eastern Music Festival. A new presence in the Triad music scene, Harley was appointed associate professor and director of accompanying at UNCG this fall.

The group will perform selections from “Eight Pieces for Clarinet, Viola and Piano, Op. 83” by Max Bruch, “Trio in Eb Major for Clarinet, Viola and Piano” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and “Kleines Konzert für Viola, Klarinette und Klavier” by Alfred Uhl. Also on the program is “On Yonder Mountain” by Dr. Eddie Bass, UNCG professor of theory and composition.

Tickets are $8 for adults, $5 for seniors and non-UNCG students and $3 for UNCG students. They may be purchased, weekdays from noon to 5 p.m., at the University box office, located in Aycock Auditorium and the School of Music. For more information, call (336) 334-4849 or visit www.uncg.edu/mus/.
All three musicians have numerous international appearances to their credit and are active performers throughout the United States.

Harley received a B.A. and M.A. from Oxford University, the Artist Diploma from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and a D.M.A. from the University of Southern California. He has been heard in recital throughout Europe, Canada and the Untied States in solo, accompanying and chamber music performances. Previous appointments have included Occidental College, University of California Los Angeles, University of Southern California and the University of California Santa Barbara, where he was head of accompanying. For five years, he was director of chamber music for the International Institute for Young Musicians and more recently was associate faculty at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. He has been featured on live radio and television broadcasts and is the official accompanist for numerous national competitions. He has recently been invited to serve as official accompanist for the International Double Reed Society Conference, which will be held at UNCG in 2003.

Equally at home playing baroque to Bebop, Burke has appeared in recitals and as a soloist with symphony orchestras throughout the United States, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, and Russia. An avid chamber musician, Burke is frequently heard in concert with the Mallarmé Chamber Players, the EastWind Trio d'Anches and the Cascade Wind Quintet.

Coordinator of the string area at UNCG, Rawls has appeared as soloist, recitalist and chamber musician throughout the United States and in Europe. Rawls has also toured extensively with Steve Reich and Musicians as a champion of new music. The group’s recent performances take taken them to San Francisco, Milan, and Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, SC.  He is also a founding member of the Locrian Chamber Players, a New-York-City-based group dedicated to performing new music.
 

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