The chamber music concert will include 16th through 18th century works from northern Italy, including music by Vivaldi, Corelli, Albinoni, Gabrieli, Sammartini, Geminiani and Cima.

The Wild Geese chamber ensemble includes Susan Black, violin, Nancy Garlick, recorder, Lynanne Wilson, cello, and Content Sablinsky, harpsichord.

Wild Geese specializes in music of the Baroque era, with performances that focus on a particular historical personality, time and place, says Susan Black, adjunct instructor of violin at EMU.

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Admission to the concert is free; donations are welcomed for the EMU music student scholarship fund. For more information contact the music department at 540-432-4225 or music@emu.edu.

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, an English pianist and , an American violinist, will perform works of Johannes Brahms, one of the premiere German composers of the 19th century. Harley and Fadial’s new CD, “the Complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano of Johannes Brahms,” for Centaur, is a celebration marking 10 years of combined musical collaboration of the duo.

“Listeners will have an opportunity to hear every aspect of Brahms’s romantic style, everything from the poignant lyricism of the first Sonata to the dark drama of the last,” said Fadial. “For us, as performers, the traversal of these works is always rewarding and every performance is new.

“This program represents an emotional and spiritual journey, and portrays Brahms the composer as both musical genius and real, feeling human being.”

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Admission to the concert is free; donations are welcomed for the .

For more information contact the music department at 540-432-4225 or music@emu.edu.

About the musicians

John Fadial is associate professor of violin at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. He has served as concertmaster of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra and as associate concertmaster of the Eastern Music Festival and Colorado Music Festival.

Fadial has performed on four continents as a United States Information Service Artistic Ambassador and has appeared at the Smithsonian Museum, The Philips Collection and the Terrace Theater of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

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A multiple nominee and recipient of the School of Music Outstanding Teaching Award, Andrew Harley serves as director of accompanying and piano chamber music. He has recently completed a recording of the Sonatas for Piano and Violin of Johannes Brahms.

As a performing artist, Harley has given solo and chamber music recitals in Canada, Central America, Europe, Scandinavia and the U.S. Harley has performed in Carnegie Hall and was invited to join the Garth Newel Piano Quartet, with whom he performed approximately 50 concerts each year, according to his biography.

Currently, Harley is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

The Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, a commercial newspaper in Germany, described Harley as 鈥渁 soloist who understands how to blend within an ensemble with excellence, yet without subjugating himself. Pearls of gold met with a diamond.”

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The recital, “British & American Art Songs,” will feature baritone, James Richardson, assistant professor of music at EMU, and James Clemens, an award-winning composer and pianist from Dayton, Va.

“This will be a fun, whimsical program that is accessible to all generations,” said Richardson. “I’ve done heavy, more serious programs in the past but this one is lighthearted, which is reflected in the chosen pieces.”

Richardson will sing works from the world renowned, Leonard Bernstein, including, “Cool,” from West Side Story; “Lonely Town,” from On the Town; and “Captain Hook’s Soliloquy,” from Peter Pan.

“Captain Hook’s Soliloquy is very eclectic, almost bipolar,” said Richardson. “You get the full story with the piece and almost begin to feel sorry for the position Captain Hook is in.”

In addition to Clemens and Bernstein, Richardson will sing songs by Benjamin Britten, Lee Hoiby and Paul Bowles.

“Paul Bowles’ songs are full of ragtime, jazz, blues and old ballads,” said Richardson. “‘Jabberwocky,’ by Hoiby, is a very challenging piece but one of my favorites to perform. It will open the program, along with settings of poetry by Walt Whitman and Lewis Carroll, which evoke images of a carefree youth and childhood.”

All featured works have been composed within the past 75 years, including Clemens’ own “Lessons: A Song Cycle for My Daughter.”

“Jim is a sensitive musician, and his cycle wonderfully captures that, communicating the tenderness of a father鈥檚 relationship with his daughter.鈥�

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Admission to the concert is free; donations are welcomed for the EMU music student scholarship fund. For more information contact the music department at 540-432-4225 or music@emu.edu.

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, associate professor of at EMU, will perform on piano, giving a recital that will encompass the romantic sounds of Rachmaninoff and Medtner to the modern sounds of Stravinsky and Prokofiev.

“These pieces have a lot of humor and capture a special mood,” said Mackey.

Mackey will perform Nicolai Medtner’s “Fairy Tales,” Igor Stravinsky’s Etude No. 4, Sergei Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 2, Dmitri Shostakovich’s Prelude and Fugue Op. 87, No. 7, and a group of Preludes from Op. 23 and Op. 32 by Sergei Rachmaninoff.

“There is a unique contrast with each piece, almost whimsical and mischievous in nature,” Mackey said.

In addition to teaching at EMU, Mackey directs the during the and tours as a soloist with the .

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Elizabeth Brightbill, flute, and Andrew Gabbert, cello, will perform a diverse program of selections ranging from 18th century to contemporary composers.

Their repertoire will include “Airs and Variations from A Treatise of Good Taste in the Art of Musick” by Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762), “Selections from Histoire du Tango,” by Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992); “The Jet Whistle” by Heitor Villa-Lobos (1881-1959) and Irish and “The Snowy Path” by Mark Kelly of the band, Altan.

Since forming Terra Voce in 2006, the duo has appeared on the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center, in the Christ Chapel Chamber Series at New York City’s Riverside Church and as finalists in the National Flute Association’s Chamber Music Competition.

Ms. Brightbill formerly was principal flue with the Tulsa (OK) Philharmonic for 10 years and performed numerous concerts and educational presentations as a member of the Tulsa Philharmonic Woodwind Quintet. She has also played with the Richmond Symphony.

Gabbert previously held titled positions with the Tulsa Philharmonic and Opera orchestras for 11 years and has recorded on Centaur Records as principal cellist of the Chorus Civitas Orchestra.

Terra Voce is on the rosters for the Virginia Commission for the Arts Residency Program and Young Audiences of Virginia. Their debut CD includes a range of musical styles from eighteenth-century Baroque to Brazilian choros and is available at CDBaby.

Brightbill currently teaches at Mary Baldwin College, Longwood University and St. Anne’s-Belfield School. Gabbert currently teaches at Randolph College, Lynchburg, Va., and maintains a private studio in Crozet, Va.

Admission to the program is free; donations are welcomed for the EMU music student scholarship fund.