Allegheny Ensemble Performs 'Enigmatic Elgar' September 19

SALISBURY, MD---The Allegheny Ensemble performs the music of 19th- and 20th-century English composer Edward Elgar during the concert “Enigmatic Elgar” 7 p.m. Wednesday, September 19, in the Great Hall of Salisbury University’s Holloway Hall.

Guest violinist Ting-Lan Chen, violist Mark Pfannschmidt and pianist Nathan Buckner join ensemble cellist Jeffrey Schoyen and violinist Sachiho Murasugi on Elgar’s Piano Quintet in A Minor. Also included is a student showcase, featuring chamber music played by SU string students.

Conductor and music director of the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra (SSO) and the Salisbury Youth Orchestra, Schoyen teaches cello and bass at SU.  He has given concerts throughout the United States, Germany, Mexico, Spain and Ecuador, and received a Frank Huntington Beebe Grant to study in London with William Pleeth. He is also a Tanglewood Gustav Golden Award recipient. Schoyen honed his cello skills at the New England Conservatory of Music and Carnegie Mellon University, before earning his D.M.A. at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Murasugi has performed extensively as a professional orchestral and chamber musician. She has been concertmaster of the Filarmonica del Bajio in Mexico, and a member of the West Virginia Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic and Springfield Symphony. She received the National Endowment for the Arts Rural Residency Grant in chamber music and has performed in such venues as the Kennedy Center, Museo del Prado, and the Music Center at Strathmore. She is a graduate of Manhattan School of Music and holds a D.M.A. from Ohio State University. Currently she is currently concertmaster for the SSO.

Chen, a professor of violin and viola at the University of Nebraska – Kearney, is an active soloist and chamber musician. She has served as concertmaster of the Kearney and Hastings symphony orchestras, guest concertmaster of the Lincoln (NE) Symphony Orchestra, and principal second violin of the Sorg Opera Company, among others. She has performed at venues including the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Lisbon Cultural Conference Hall, Avery Fisher Hall in New York and Boston Symphony Hall.

Pfannschmidt is a member of the National Philharmonic in Rockville, MD, and former principal violist of the Gettysburg Chamber Orchestra. As a member of the U.S. Marine Chamber Orchestra, he performed for many functions at the White House, U.S. Department of State and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. He also has given solo and chamber music performances in Maryland, Michigan and Minnesota.

    A professor of piano at the University of Nebraska – Kearney, Buckner has played in recital at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center and Merkin Concert Hall, also in Manhattan, and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. He has appeared throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia, including recital performances in Taiwan, Mexico, Korea, China, Hong Kong, Belarus and Slovenia.

Sponsored by the Music, Theatre and Dance Department, admission is free and the public is invited. For more information call 410-548-5588 or visit the SU website.