Marshall University faculty cellist Slen Dikener and pianist Kamerhan Turan of Vienna, Austria, will present a guest artist recital at the WVU Creative Arts Center on Sunday, Sept. 26, at 8:15 p.m. in the Bloch Learning and Performance Hall (Room 200A). The event is free and open to the public.

The program will feature Suite Espagnole for cello and piano by Manuel De Falla;Tracingfor cello and piano (1994) by Kamran Ince; Sonata for cello and piano, op. 12 A by Adnan Saygun; and Sonata for cello and piano by Cesar Franck.

Dr. Dikener was one of the final assistants of famous cellist Paul Tortelier in France. He spent three years in Nice, where he also studied with Maud Tortelier and Frieder Lenz. His chamber music degree is from Consrvatoire National de Nice, where he collaborated with Michel Lethiec, director of P. Casals Festival. Prior to his graduate study, Dikener was the first protégé cellist of his native Turkey, where he gave his debut recital at age 13 and appeared as soloist with the Presidential Symphony Orchestra a few years later. Dikener immigrated to the United States in 1995 and completed his doctorate at Michigan State University. He has recorded solo and chamber music works by Ilhan Baran (2002) and William Matthews (2000). He currently records the solo and accompanied cello works of Turkish composers for Albany Records and YESA .

Also a native of Turkey, Kamerhan Turan began to play the piano at the age of seven in Ankara. After his graduation from Hacettepe University, he entered the Hochschule fr Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. During his studies, he was awarded scholarships by the Austrian Ministry of Culture and the Alban Berg Music Foundation. He has won prizes at many international piano competitions, including first prizes at the 5th European Music Competition in Moncalieri and IBLA International Piano Competition in Ragusa, Italy. He was a finalist at the Rome International Piano Competition in 1996. Since 1999, he has been teaching at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He has appeared with the Presidential Symphony in Ankara, with the State Symphony Orchestras of Instanbul, Izmir, Bursa, Cukurova, and with the Orchestra International dItalia, among others.

For more information about the concert and master classes, call the WVU College of Creative Arts at (304) 293-4841 ext. 3108.