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Solo Cellist Performance
March 18, 2005
CARROLLTON, GA - Cellist Dr. Stephen Framil will perform a recital of solo cello music at the University of West Georgia on Monday, March 28, at 8:15 p.m. in Cashen Hall in the Humanities building on the UWG campus.
Framil,
an active soloist and chamber musician who has studied with Janós
Starker, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Helga Winold, and the late Rostislav Dubinsky,
earned his performance doctorate at Indiana University. He will play two
Bach solo cello suites, a solo sonata by Zoltán Kodály,
and a solo sonata by Paul Hindemith. Framil will also teach a master class
that afternoon at 3:30 p.m. in Cashen Hall.
Framil won first prize in the 2004 CRS Competition for Performing Artists, has held Professor of Music positions at the University of Delaware and Andrews University (MI), served as a Visiting Artist/Lecturer at Westminster Choir College, conductor at the 2002 Hong Kong Youth Music Camp, and adjudicated the 56th Hong Kong Schools of Music Festival Competition (2004).
He has recorded the complete J.S. Bach Suites for Solo Cello for Radio 4 Hong Kong, as well as the works for solo cello by Zoltán Kodály and Gaspar Cassadó. In 2005/2006 he will record the two Haydn Cello Concertos with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra for Centaur Records.
Framil has played solo performances with the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra in Hungary, the National Philharmonic of Moldova, the Oltenia State Filarmonica in Romania, Hong Kong City Hall, Zaporozhye Symphony Orchestra in the Ukraine, Vratza Philharmonic Orchestra in Bulgaria, Viêt Nam National Symphony Orchestra, National Philharmonic Society of the Philippines, and the Bombay Chamber Orchestra in India.
In the U.S., he has performed solo in Carnegie Weill Hall in New York, with the Redlands (CA) Symphony Orchestra, Nashville (TN) Chamber Orchestra, Scottsdale (AZ) Symphony Orchestra, American Landmark Festivals in New York, Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series (“Live” Broadcast on WFMT - Chicago), the Schubert Club (Minneapolis), and the Chamber Music Society of Little Rock, Arkansas.
Framil’s 2004/2005 season includes solo debut appearances with the Manila Philharmonic Orchestra (Philippines), Volgograd Philharmonic Orchestra (Russia), Carson City Symphony Orchestra (Nevada), and the Russian National Library Symphony Orchestra (St. Petersburg). Both the recital and master class, sponsored by the UWG Department of Music, are free and the public is cordially invited. For more information, contact the Music Department at 678-839-6516.
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