Majore Trio to Present Touring Preview Concert at Lebanon Valley College

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The Majore Trio performs at Lebanon Valley College at 11:15 a.m. on March 20.

ANNVILLE, PA (03/15/2012)(readMedia)-- Performing group the Majore Trio will present a preview of their upcoming concert tour in a free concert at Lebanon Valley College on Tuesday, March 20 at 11:15 a.m. in Zimmerman Recital Hall of the Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery.

The Majore Trio formed in 2010 and includes Rebecca Butler on piano, Marie-Aline Cadieux on cello, and Hannes Dietrich on violin. The program will include Mendelssohn's "Trio in D Minor," as well as shorter pieces by Arbos and Turina.

Dietrich, a native of Bozeman, Montana, joined the LVC faculty in 1995. As the Newton and Adelaide Burgner Professor in Instrumental Music, he directs the LVC Symphony Orchestra, teaches conducting and string methods and applied violin and viola, and conducts chamber music ensembles. He has studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, and at Montana State University. Dietrich has a master's in violin performance and a doctorate in violin performance and conducting from the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati.

He began studying violin at age five, and the piano shortly thereafter. He is a founding member of the Majore Trio, maintains an active performance schedule with Duo Terlano, and has performed with the Dela'Art Trio. He performs solo violin recitals throughout the country and is an active ragtime pianist.

As a conductor, Dietrich has lead district, regional, state, and honors orchestras from New Jersey to Montana. He is active as a clinician, and recently was awarded the Orchestra Director of the Year award from the Pennsylvania/Delaware String Teachers Association.

When he is not teaching or performing, Dietrich can be found backpacking through the wilds of Montana, cross country skiing, fly fishing on a secluded stream, or cooking elegant meals with his wife.

Cadieux, professor of music at Kutztown University and adjunct cello instructor at LVC, is a member of the Majore Trio and Duo Terlano, as well a solo recitalist. She has performed across Europe, but has become an established presence in the Mid-Atlantic music scene since moving to the area in 1999.

She served for many years as Principal Cellist for the Illinois Symphony, Illinois Chamber Orchestra, festival orchestras at Aspen, Blossom Music Festival, and Great Music West, traveling Broadway shows, and dance companies including the Mark Morris Dance Group. She toured extensively with the Kirkland Piano Trio, and performed with the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra.

Cadieux was a finalist in the Chicago Symphony/Rose Faye Thomas Competition, a fellowship award recipient at the Bach Aria Festival in Long Island, N.Y., and has received numerous teaching awards, including the Pennsylvania/Delaware String Teachers Association Outstanding String Teacher Award. Her former students can be found in leading college music programs and conservatories across the country, and she frequently gives clinics and master classes for music educators and students.

She received her master's degree and graduate certificate in performance from Northwestern University, where she studied with master teacher Hans Jorgen Jensen. She earned her doctorate at Ohio State University, under the tutelage of William Conable. Other influences include Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Ko Iwasaki, and Harvey Shapiro.

Butler is a professor of music at Albright College in Reading where she has been a member of the faculty for 26 years. She earned her bachelor's degree in music education and piano performance at the Oberlin Conservatory, where she was a piano student of Leon Bates, Frances Walker, and Sedmara Zacharian Rutstein, and went on to earn a master's degree in accompanying and chamber music at Temple University, where she studied with Lambert Orkis and Natalie Hinderas. At Albright, where she is music department co-chair, her teaching responsibilities include various general music classes for non-music majors and music history and theory. Butler is symphonic band director, teaches applied lessons on flute and piano, organizes and coaches small wind and string ensembles, and coordinates adjunct instructors for applied music and classroom instruction.

She has been principal keyboardist for the Reading Symphony Orchestra for 26 years, performing keyboard parts as required and accompanying guest soloists in conductor's rehearsal and performers for special symphony events. She is an active freelance accompanist and chamber musician in southeastern Pennsylvania and pianist with the Reading Symphony Trio. Butler toured with the American Boychoir School of Princeton, accompanied the Berks Classical Children's Chorus, the Reading Choral Society, and the New England Music Camp in Waterville, Maine. She has appeared extensively in the area with Christopher Collins Lee on various concert series, most recently on the Beacon Hill Concert Series in East Stroudsburg, Pa., along with soprano Elisabeth Turchi.