On Friday, February 6, at 11:45 am, WSU faculty member and DSO violinist, Marian Tanau will be joined by violinist Kyoko Kashiwagi, and Eva Stern, viola. The trio will perform works by Sergei Taneyev, Zoltan Kodaly and Antonin Dvorak.
On Sunday, February 8, at 3:00 pm, guest artists from Bowling Green State University will perform as part of the American Romanian Festival. Vasile Beluska, violin, DaZhang Wang, violin, Alan Smith, cello, and Solungga Fang-Tzu Liu, piano will performs works by Tchaikovsky, Porumbescu, Bao Zhi Yang, Bach, and Mendelssohn.
Both recitals are in Schaver Music Recital Hall (Old Main, 480 W. Hancock) and are free and open to the public.
Marian Tanau first picked up the violin at age four and began his musical education in his hometown of Timisoara, Romania. He graduated from Liceul de Muzica "Ion Vidu" where he studied violin with Maria Cleşiu, then left for the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca and the Music Conservatory "G. Dima," where he earned an Artists Diploma. He later earned a graduate degree from Bowling Green State University. Tanau joined the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 1995.
An active chamber musician Tanau joined the violin faculty at Wayne State University in 2004.
The following year, he returned to Romania as a visiting professor at the National College of Art "Ion Vidu" and the Music Conservatory of the West University in Timisoara. His recording of the violin sonata by Paul Paray, recorded for Grotto Productions, was praised by critics in the prestigious Strad, Gramophone and Fanfare magazines. Marian Tanau is the founder of the American Romanian Festival, a non-profit organization that fosters mutual understanding and cultural exchanges between Romania and the United States.
Kyoko Kashiwagi, violinist, was born in Switzerland and raised in Tokyo where she began playing violin at the age of three. After studying with Koichiro Harada of the Tokyo String Quartet, she came to the United States to continue her studies at the Juilliard School, where she studied with Dorothy DeLay and Joseph Fuchs. As a founding member of three quartets, she won numerous first prizes and awards at competitions in the United States, Japan, and Canada. She
has toured the world and hosted master classes at universities nationwide.
Eva Stern teaches at Eastern Michigan University. Previously, she was Visiting Assistant Professor of Viola at Bowling Green State University. Ms. Stern holds a Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music, where she was a student and teaching assistant of George Taylor. She completed her undergraduate studies with Walter Trampler and Daniel Phillips at
Purchase College, SUNY. Stern is a former member of the Richmond Symphony and the Louisville Orchestra, a current member of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, and plays as a substitute with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Also in demand as a chamber musician, she has performed with The Muse String Quartet, The Michigan Chamber Players, Chamber Music at the Scarab Club, Chamber Music Ann Arbor and the Richmond-based new music ensemble Currents.
With pianist Joel Schoenhals, she has performed and taught master classes across the United States, Turkey and the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus. The Stern-Schoenhals Duo was welcomed as Artists-in-Residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts for two summers, and has been featured in several broadcasts on National Public Radio. Stern appears on a recording of chamber music for oboe and strings by Franz Krommer, released on Naxos. She has taught master classes at the University of Michigan, Vanderbilt University, West Virginia University, James Madison University, Rhodes College and Boise State University.
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