Montana Natives Combine for First Collaborative Performance at Lebanon Valley College

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Hannes Dietrich is professor of music at Lebanon Valley College.

• Daniel Immel is assistant professor of music at Kutztown University.

ANNVILLE, PA (01/26/2012)(readMedia)-- Montana natives and college music professors Dr. Daniel Immel and Dr. Hannes Dietrich will collaborate for their first violin and piano concert as a duo on Thursday, Feb. 16 at 7:30 p.m. in Zimmerman Recital Hall of the Suzanne H. Arnold Gallery at Lebanon Valley College. Dietrich is professor of music at LVC; Immel an assistant professors of music at Kutztown University. Admission to the concert is free and open to the public.

According to Dietrich, "We are very much looking forward to this first collaboration of two guys from Montana." The program includes the "Partita in B minor" for solo violin by J.S. Bach, the "Sonata in G Major, KV 301" for violin and piano by Mozart, the "Sonata for violin and piano" by Fazil Say, and the "Adagio and Allegro" for viola and piano by Robert Schumann.

Dietrich, a native of Bozeman, 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 was honored in 2008 with the Pennsylvania/Delaware String Teacher's Association (PADESTA) Outstanding Orchestra Director Award.

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 performs regularly as a solo violin and piano musician, and as part of the Majore Trio and Duo Terlano ensembles.

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.