West Virginia University music faculty member Cynthia Anderson will present an oboe recital, Saturday, Dec. 8, at the Creative Arts Center.

The concert begins at 8:15 in Bloch Learning and Performance Hall (200A) and is free and open to the public.

The program is international and includes Alexander Wunderer’s “Oboe Sonata,” which is Austrian; Gilles Silvestrini’s “Etudes for Solo Oboe,” based on French Impressionist paintings; Claude Debussy’s “Menuet from Suite Bergamasque,” which is French; Jeffrey Rathbun’s “Three Diversions for Two Oboes,” which is American; and Joao Guilherme Ripper’s “Kinderszenen” (Children’s Scenes) for oboe, cello & piano, which is Brazilian.

Anderson will be joined on the program by pianist Marina Schmid. Marina will also play Debussy’s “L’Isle Joyeuse.”

WVU music professor William Skidmore will be playing cello and Anderson’s Pittsburgh Opera colleague, Robin Driscoll, will also be playing oboe with her on the Rathbun piece.

Cynthia Anderson is associate professor of oboe and music theory at WVU. She received her Master of Music degree from The Manhattan School of Music and her Bachelor’s degree in Music Education from Northwestern University. She performed as Principal Oboe with the Mexico City Philharmonic, and has performed with orchestras in Italy, Mexico, New York, and Pittsburgh. She has performed on oboe d’amore in Holland and at several international conferences with the Aiolos Collective, a double reed ensemble of international musicians, and has recorded a CD of original music for that ensemble.

She currently plays oboe and English horn with the Pittsburgh Opera, the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, and Pittsburgh Broadway Series orchestras.

For more information, contact the College of Creative Arts at (304) 293-4359.

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

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