ANNVILLE, PA (01/19/2012)(readMedia)-- Lebanon Valley College presents Marie-Aline Cadieux and guest pianist Dr. Daniel Immel in a free and public concert on Thursday, Feb. 9 at 7:30 p.m., in Zimmerman Recital Hall of the Suzanne H. Arnold Gallery. Cadieux is adjunct cello instructor at LVC; both Cadieux and Immel are professors of music at Kutztown University.

The program will include the "Suite for Solo Cello" by Gaspar Cassado, a Spanish cellist and early 20th century composer. He was born in Barcelona to a church musician father and began taking cello lessons at age seven. When he was nine, he played in a recital where Pablo Casals was in the audience; Casals immediately offered to teach him. The city of Barcelona awarded him a scholarship so that he could study with Casals in Paris.

Cadieux and Immel will perform the "Sonata for Cello and Piano" by Sergei Rachmaninoff. According to history, Rachmaninoff disliked calling it a cello sonata because he thought the two instruments were equal. Cadieux suggests that pianists probably don't agree with him. She describes the piece as a "prime example of Rachmaninoff's lush, romantic writing, with soaring melodies that capitalize on each instrument's expressive and technical capabilities."

Cadieux, 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.

Pianist Daniel Immel is assistant professor of music at Kutztown. His primary teachers have included Madeleine Forte, James Cook, Luba Edlina-Dubinsky and Gregory Allen.

Immel holds performance degrees from Boise State University, Indiana University, and the University of Texas at Austin, as well as a performance diploma from the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau, France. His has played both solo and in collaboration in the U.S., Europe, Canada, and Russia. He was a finalist in the Vienna International Music Competition in 2008, and received second prize in the 2007 Bradshaw and Buono International Piano Competition in New York. He recently collaborated with the Cypress String Quartet for the Louisiana Tech Concert Association's 2009–10 season, as well as saxophonist Todd Oxford at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall.

Posted Thursday January 19, 2012 at 09:00 am by Lebanon Valley College
Last Updated Thursday January 19, 2012 at 12:11 pm