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Trio con Brio Performs at UNCG Oct. 19

GREENSBORO – Florida State University faculty artists who have excelled in the concert hall as well as the classroom will bring their musical talents to The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Sunday, Oct. 19, for a special guest concert sponsored by the UNCG School of Music and Music for a Great Space.

The performance will begin at 8 p.m. in the School of Music Recital Hall. Tickets are $8 for adults, $5 for seniors and students, and $3 for UNCG students. For more information, call the box office at (336) 334-4849 between noon and 5 p.m. weekdays.

The trio is comprised of FSU faculty members Dr. Frank Kowalsky (clarinet), Lubomir Georgiev (cello) and Dr. Carolyn Bridger (piano).They have been together since 1993, presenting master classes and concerts throughout the country, including a sold-out concert in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in 1998.

The trio’s repertoire consists of standard and little-known works spanning three centuries.  Their Greensboro concert will include Mozart’s “Trio in E Flat Major,” Marko Tajcevic’s “Seven Balkan Dances,” Mikhail Glinka’s “Trio Pathetique,” Nino Rota’s 1973 “Trio” and two works by Claude Debussy, “Sonata for Cello and Piano” and “Premiere Rhapsody for Clarinet and Piano.”

FRANK KOWALSKY, clarinetist, has performed as principal clarinetist with orchestras throughout the United States, including the Naples Philharmonic, Tallahassee Symphony and Northwood Orchestra (Mich.), and is in demand as a recitalist, chamber musician and pedagogue.  Recent activities include tours to England, Spain and Sweden and concerts with the Opperman Reed Trio on the East Coast and in Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall.  He also performs regularly with Music at Gretna and the Seattle Chamber Music Festival. A member of the faculty at the Interlochen Arts Academy for ten years, he has been professor of clarinet at FSU since 1984.  His students have won national and international competitions and hold positions in major orchestras and on college and university faculties throughout the country. Kowalsky holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music, the Manhattan School of Music and the Catholic University of America.

LUBOMIR GEORGIEV, cellist, joined the FSU faculty in 1993, following his position as principal cellist in the Sacramento Symphony.  Georgiev graduated from the Bulgarian State Conservatory in Sofia and received the Artist Diploma from Indiana University, where he was a student and teaching assistant of Janos Starker.  He has been soloist and principal cellist with the Sofia Philharmonic, appeared as guest artist with major orchestras and on Bulgarian radio recordings, and has won numerous national and international awards and competitions, both as a cellist and as a composer.  Georgiev is a frequent guest performer at festivals in Bear Valley, Calif.; Desert Foothills, Ariz.; and Varna, Bulgaria.  He has also performed with the Dohnanyi Piano Trio on tour and in Carnegie Hall, and recently returned from Japan where he was guest soloist with the Gakusen University Symphony Orchestra.  Well known as a teacher and chamber music coach, his students have won numerous competitions and are successful in orchestral and academic positions both in this country and abroad.

CAROLYN BRIDGER, pianist, has performed extensively as both soloist and collaborative artist throughout the United States (including concerts with both the Dohnanyi Piano Trio and the Opperman Reed Trio in Carnegie Hall), Canada, Europe, South America, the Azores Islands, and Southeast Asia.  She has appeared as soloist with major orchestras and received the Schubert Prize for Accompanying in Austria. In demand as a teacher and chamber music coach, Bridger has presented master classes in Malaysia, China, and the Dalmatian Islands, and has taught at the International Summer School in Stari Grad (Croatia), the Grand Teton, Red Lodge and Tidewater Music Festivals. Following teaching positions at Emory University, UNC-Chapel Hill and Delta State, Bridger joined the FSU faculty in 1976. She is a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory, Indiana University, and the University of Iowa. She was recently named the John Boda Professor of Piano and Chamber Music.

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