Violinist Mikylah Myers McTeer will be joined by flutist Nina Assimakopoulos and pianist Lucy Mauro for a faculty recital at West Virginia University’s Creative Arts Center, Thursday, Oct. 25.

The program begins at 8:15 p.m. in the Bloch Learning and Performance Hall and is free and open to the public.

The program will feature two of the great French masterpieces for violin and piano: Claude Debussy’s scintillating “Sonata for Violin and Piano” and Camille Saint-Sa�ns’ virtuosic “Sonata No. 1 for Piano and Violin.”

The program also features Assimakopoulus, WVU’s new assistant professor of flute, in the Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů’s “Sonata for Flute, Violin and Piano.”

Myers McTeer received her bachelor’s degree from the Oberlin College of Music and her master’s degree and doctorate from the University of Houston Moore’s School of Music. During that time, she regularly performed with the Houston Symphony and the Houston Grand Opera. She was previously concertmaster of the San Juan Symphony and has performed internationally as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Italy, Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary.

Mauro’s performances include those for the Colorado Music Festival Chamber Music Series, Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress, the Contemporary American Theater Festival and the reunion of the French Piano Institute. She is a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, from which she received bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees and where she studied with Ann Schein and Julio Esteban.

Assimakopoulos has presented more than 50 world-premiere performances, as well as multimedia collaborative projects and concerts. She has performed as principal flute with the Munich City Opera, Bavarian Radio Symphony Academy Orchestra, the New Hampshire Symphony and the Toledo Symphony. She studied with Peter Lloyd at the Indiana University School of Music and Paul Meisen at the Munich Academy of Music.

For more information, contact the College of Creative Arts at (304) 293-4359 or visit http://ccarts.wvu.edu.

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CONTACT: Charlene Lattea, College of Creative Arts
304-293-4359, Charlene.Lattea@mail.wvu.edu

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