Violin and piano lovers will enjoy a free concert Saturday (March 8) at West Virginia University.
WVU music professors Mikylah Myers McTeer, violin, and James Miltenberger, piano, will present a recital at 8:15 p.m. in the Bloch Learning and Performance Hall (Room 200A) of the Creative Arts Center. The event on the Evansdale Campus is free and open to the public.
The program will includeSuite in the Old Style for Violin and Pianoby Alfred Schnittke;Sonata for Violin and Piano in F Major Op. 24, (Spring)by Ludwig van Beethoven;Nigun (Improvisation) from Ball Shem (Three Pictures of Chassidic Life)by Ernest Bloch; andSonata for Violin and Pianoby John Corigliano.
McTeer recently joined the WVU music faculty as assistant professor of violin. She maintains an active chamber music and solo performance schedule, which this year includes a performance of Lou HarrisonsSuite for Violin and American Gamelanat the Percussive Arts Societys International Convention in Columbus.
She received her bachelors degree from the Oberlin College of Music and her masters degree and doctorate from the University of Houstons Moores School of Music, where she studied with renowned violinist Fredell Lack. During that time, she regularly performed with the Houston Symphony and the Houston Grand Opera. She was also a violinist with the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Fla.
McTeer was previously concertmaster of the San Juan Symphony and assistant professor of violin and viola at Fort Lewis College. She was also the founder, artistic director and conductor of the Durango Youth Symphony.
She spends her summers performing at music festivals throughout the United States and Europe. McTeer has performed internationally as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Italy, Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary.
JamesDocMiltenberger has given numerous solo recitals in cities such as Chicago, Pittsburgh, Washington, D.C. and at Carnegie Recital Hall in New York City. He toured Japan in 1985 as featured soloist with WVU s Percussion 80 and has toured Europe several times with the Miltenberger Jazz Quartet. He also has appeared on nationwide television on PBS and on NBC s Today Show.
For more information, contact the College of Creative Arts at 304-293-4841 ext. 3108.